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news roundup

According to Scalia, People Only Get Rights When There's Nothing At Stake

  • In a 5-4 ruling today, the Supreme Court has (again) decided that the prisoners at Gitmo deserve some semblance of the rights afforded everyone else imprisoned in this country, like the right to protest to a judge the fact that they've been held for 6 years without charges. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia defended the right to not afford the detainees any rights because "America is at war with radical Islamists," but I'm sure he came up with some bullshit legal reasoning to discard the Constitution like he always does. Strict constructionalist my ass. [Washington Post]
  • In other legal news, the jury is now considering its verdict in the R. Kelly case. [AP]
  • In yet further legal news, Tony Rezko claims that federal prosecutors cajoled him to make up allegations against Barack Obama. He says, "I will never fabricate lies about anyone else for selfish purposes. I will take what comes my way, but I will never hurt innocent people." Except, you know, when he bribes officials and commits frauds. [Politico]
  • Oh, look, the first food named after Eliot Spitzer: "a gargantuan patty wrapped around braised shortribs (no foie gras, here) and slathered with barbecue sauce". Now if only the Mayflower could, um, swallow their pride and name a drink after him, my life would be complete. [OuttaMindOuttaSite]
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6:30 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Megan Carpentier
4,480 views, 134 comments

Latest by n/a: @J.D.Regent: You make a really good point but I don't know that I agree with it. Scalia taught admin and was a litigator, if you read his opinions on cases relating either to admin or evidence, I'm sorry more »

crappy hour

Sometimes, Ignorance Is Bliss

Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links and, frankly, I'm just a little sick of talking about the primaries. So the Windy's Attackerman and I, in all my morning Glamocratic splendor, take on things we probably should've ignored, like the primaries, Russian goosestepping, Spencer's favorite strip club in all of Canada and Arianna Huffington's secrets about John McCain. More »

10:00 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,831 views, 156 comments

Latest by bria: @LinaLamont: [en.wikipedia.org] Folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons: 1. the late appearance of the explanation means that it has no tradition, only the value of its content; 2. the facts described do not fit especially well at more »

crappy hour

Who Would God Vote For? Probably the Fascists!

Not that I ever smoked, but I guess I'd start, too, if my house looked like that. But there are disasters all over the place today, from Hillary's wonderful comments on race to the innocent guy we held in Gitmo who decided that the terrorists were right about us to the Myanmar cyclone pictured. It's disaster day on Crappy Hour, as Moe takes a much-needed break and I take a moment away from Glamocracy to talk Texas, Hillary, terrorists, fascists and God with the Washington Independent's Attackerman, Spencer Ackerman. More »

10:00 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By mcarpentier
4,990 views, 322 comments

Latest by scullymurphy: Sorry for the late comment, but read this today on HuffPo and it's very relevant. [www.huffingtonpost.com] (link leads to actual post even if it looks like it doesn't) Art Levine points out that the dems haven't won the more »