Tag Archives: Supreme Court

Life During Wartime : Corporations Are People Too!

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Political cartoon by Joshua Brown / Historians Against the War / The Rag BlogThanks to Dr. S.R. Keister /The Rag Blog

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Health Care and Campaign Finance : The Corporate Stranglehold

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

“A Jail for Uncle Sam,” By Arcadio Esquivel / Cagle Cartoons / La Prensa, Panama.Buying politics in America, Inc:Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts debacle, And dimming hopes for health care reform By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading →

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VERSE / Larry Piltz : A Poem of Judicial Atrocity

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

Corporate zombie. Photo by Ian MacLellan / MacLellan Images. The Sniff Test[A poem of judicial atrocity] The corporate zombie creatureraises a misshapen nostrilout of the feudal muck,smells air sweet enough to fouland emerges uncontrite,lunging onto stolid groundthe mud beneath it … Continue reading →

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Supremes Make it Official : Corporations Rule!

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Thorne Dreyer

High court ruling on campaign finance:The corporation as supreme being By Glenn W. Smith / The Rag Blog / January 21, 2010 If you had any doubt about the corruption that has infected the very bloodstream of American politics, look … Continue reading →

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Supremes : ‘Suspected Enemy Combatant’ no Longer a ‘Person’

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Portrait of a non-person. Image from girloftomorrow.Dred Scott redux:Enemy combatants denied legal standing …once again, 144 years after the Civil War, we have established as the law of the land and the policy of the United States government that whole … Continue reading →

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Supremes Hear Challenge to Mojave Cross

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Eight foot high cross on Sunrise Mountain in the Mojave National Preserve. Below, cross is covered during court fight. Lower photo by Eric Reed.Veterans’ memorial at Mojave National Preserve:Supreme Court hears challenge to eight-foot cross The ACLU argued that the … Continue reading →

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Campaign Finance : Will the Supremes Dance on Democracy’s Corpse?

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Straight jacket? “Money Shirt” by Rob Lee / Flickr / Concurring Opinions.The Supreme Court:Set to rule on campaign finance The Court may be poised to shred a century of judicial and legislative attempts to preserve even a semblance of restraint … Continue reading →

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The Iqbal Decision and the Common Man

Posted on July 22, 2009 by RagBlog

In Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s view, the court “messed up the federal rules.”9/11 Case Could Bring Broad Shift on Civil SuitsBy Adam Liptak / July 20, 2009 The most consequential decision of the Supreme Court’s last term got only a … Continue reading →

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Sen. Sessions : Alabama Hypocrite Would Sit in Judgment

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic: US News & World Report, June, 16, 1986. Click on image to enlarge. There is great irony here in the once rejected nominee [for federal judge] now trying to sharpen his claws on Judge Sotomayor. But she is lots … Continue reading →

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Starr Takes Shine to Sotomayor

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Starr’s attack of rightwing realism is more evidence, if any was needed, of what I said from the get-go: Sotomayor is not a radical. By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / June 20, 2009 Kenneth Starr, who certainly lives … Continue reading →

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The Sotomayor Nomination : Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Racism and Right-Wing Lunacy Her comment was simply a truism: identity shapes experience, which then informs perceptions. Identity provides a lens through which one then observes reality. By Tim Wise / June 1, 2009 For a group that regularly decries … Continue reading →

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Lisa Sánchez González on the Sotomayor Nomination : Fighting my Inner Cynic

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Thorne Dreyer

Barack Obama introduces his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a Boricua from the South Bronx. Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP.Obama nominates a Boricua from the South Bronx:A tease or a real slice of hope? By Lisa Sánchez González … Continue reading →

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