George Takei is calling on the power of the boycott in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. Writing on That Blog Is So Takei, the actor and activist begins by noting that “A 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court (comprised of all men) delivered a stunning set-back for […]
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to California’s ban on gay conversion therapy on minors. In rejecting the case, the Supreme court let stand a federal appeals court ruling that conversion therapy has no scientific underpinnings and that the ban did not infringe on the free speech rights of counselors or people who were […]
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 […]