Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday against the nomination of David Barron to be a judge for the First Circuit Court. Senator Paul talked about his concerns with Mr. Barron’s views on drone policy, due process and the right to trial. In the course of his 30+ minute speech, Rand Paul cited […]
Brown vs Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to […]
This short documentary follows the lawyer Steven Wise’s effort to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans. As the New York Times reports, “In December 2013, the lawyer Steven Wise showed the world how, with a little legal jujitsu, an animal can transition from a thing without rights to a person with […]
NBC reports that “A Kansas judge granted a request Wednesday to formally change the name of the soldier convicted of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks from Bradley Edward Manning to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.” In a one-minute hearing, Leavenworth County District Judge David King ruled that he would allow the name change. According to NBC, “Manning […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore, creator of ALEC Rock, delivers hard-hitting and fun political animation as he takes on the Hobby Lobby birth control case. After corporations got free speech rights with Citizens United, they’re now on their way to getting freedom of religion. With the “Hobby Lobby” case before the Supreme Court, the contraception […]