Archive for 'Supreme Court'
The Elephant in the Room: The Case against Corporate Personhood
NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made the movie, Citizens United, is a [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2009 under Supreme Court, campaign, candidate, corporate greed, free, freedom, hillary clinton, law, lawyer, politician, politics.
Tags: campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate rights, election, elephant, free, free speech, freedom, George Mason University, hillary, hillary clinton, hillary rodham clinton, hillary: the movie, human rights, law, lawyers, money, NPR, obama, on point, pay-per-view, politics, power, primary, Supreme Court, voting, voting rights
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Lady Justice: "They've Never Been a 13-Year old Girl."
The case Redding vs. Safford Unified School District #1 was decided by the Supreme Court this week. The 8-to-1 decision was awarded to Savana Redding, who as 13-year old girl, was strip-searched by school officials when she was suspected of carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, each of which would have had the strength of two [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Supreme Court, drugs, gender, human dignity, human rights, objectification, politics, student.
Tags: dangerous, delerious, fear, gender, hazing, justice, men, objectification, pills, rape, ruth bader ginsburg, savana redding, school, strip-search, Supreme Court, violation, women
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Don't Kill For Me: The Case Against Death for Child Rapists
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the case of Patrick Kennedy, who is being tried for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter, in Louisiana, a state where the crime of child rape carries the death penalty. This will be the first case to reexamine the use of the death penalty for rape since 1977, when [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Supreme Court, abuse, black males, institutionalized racism, race, racial discrimination, racial profiling, racism, sexual, sexual abuse, sexual assault, statutory rape, supreme, women's rights.
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Antonin Scalia:Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Concentration Camps
As if we needed reasons to fear and loathe Antonin Scalia, we’ve just received another. (WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS DISTURBING.) No, it’s not that hunting trip he took with Cheney – wikipedia offers that “Scalia refused, however, to recuse himself in the case of Cheney v. United States District Court for the District of [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Western, abu ghraib, ann coulter, antonin, ass, ballot, battlefield, camp, cartoon, case, cheney, civil court, concentration, concentration camps, constitution, coulter, court, crime, dick, district court, district of columbia, escape, execute, execution, fair trial, fascism, guantanamo bay, hamdan, harold, humanity, judge, kumar, legal, legal recourse, middle easterner, mullah, politics, preventative war, prevention, punk, punkassblog, recuse, rumsfeld, scalia, suicide, suicide attempts, switzerland, terrorism, terrorist, torture, vice president, war, waterboard.
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Our Masculine Systems: Women's Inequality Under the U.S. Constitution
Back in the day, in 1776, when our Founding Father and future second president John Quincy Adams was helping to draft the constitution, his wife, (Founding Mother?), Abigail Adams, asked him to “Remember the ladies” in that august document. He replied, in a letter, “Depend upon it, We know better than to repeal our Masculine [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under 14th, American, Congress, George W. BUsh, National Organization for Women, Senator, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, United States, Virginia Tech, abigail adams, abusive conduct, agency, amendment, american history, antonio morrison, bill clinton, bitch, campaign, candidate, christy brzonkala, commerce clause, condom, constitution, constitutional, court of appeals, culture, en banc, football players, founding father, founding mother, fourteenth amendment, fuck the shit out of them, george macon university, get girls drunk, government, grand jury, history, human rights, hurting, inequality, james crawford, joe biden, john quincy adams, judge rehnquist, liberty, life, masculine systems, masculinity, no, objectification, opinionatrix, personal safety, pretzel, pursuit of happiness, race, rape, rapist, religion, sex, sexual assault, sexual violence, state's rights, stds, strength, survivor, violence, violence against women, violence against women act, woman, women's center, women's liberation, women's rights.
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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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Supreme Court Bans Partial Birth Abortion
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday, April 18th, that after a 5-4 decision, it will uphold the 2003 ruling of a lower court to ban partial- birth abortion. According to this article, the decision is “the first in which the court has upheld a ban on a specific method of abortion, means that doctors who perform [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Justice Kennedy, Misogyny, Supreme Court, abortion, human dignity, partial birth abortion, president bush, samuel a. alito, sanctity of life.
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