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Chinese president proposes guidelines for Sino-Australian ties Xinhua - 3 hours ago Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and Australian Prime Minister John Winston Howard meet press after their talks in...
View ArticleNational polls don't matter?
The party line here is that national primary polls don't matter; that only individual state polls matter, because states hold their own individual votes to apportion their own slates of delegates. But...
View ArticleGoodridge v. Department of Public Health
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announces each morning which opinions it will release at 10:00 AM. Today, according to its website, it will finally release its ruling on gay marriage. Poll:...
View Article180 days
Some wonder what to make of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's language staying its recent marriage decision for 180 days:Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the...
View ArticleColorado Supreme Court strikes down redistricting
See here. Opinions here and here. Update: Here's the AP story, Colorado Supreme Court Rules GOP Redistricting Unconstitutional: In a decision that could have national implications, the Colorado Supreme...
View ArticleDeLay subpoena quashed
Bummer.The federal panel agreed with the lawmakers' attorney that only under exceptional circumstances, such as having unique information in a case, could they be subject to a subpoena. Unless evidence...
View ArticleNonresident gay marriages in MA
GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS TITLE III., DOMESTIC RELATIONS, CHAPTER 207. MARRIAGE CERTAIN MARRIAGES PROHIBITED Chapter 207: Section 11 Non-residents;...
View ArticleRewriting the Federal Marriage Amendment
The current version of the Federal Marriage Amendment introduced in Congress ("Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this constitution or the...
View ArticleMcCain-Feingold BCRA upheld
The Supreme Court has upheld all of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, except for the provisions restricting minors' donations and requiring parties to choose between coordinated and...
View ArticleCheney v. U.S. District Court
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Cheney's appeal in Cheney v. U.S. District Court. Decision on whether to grant cert had been delayed for several weeks, with the case being relisted several times...
View ArticleStupid Finneran
From a CNC rag:Charles Rasmussen, a spokesman for House Speaker Thomas Finneran, said the state constitution only allows the Senate to request an advisory opinion from the SJC. He declined to comment...
View Article"Unelectable" -- a miserable failure
Whereas googlebombing "failure" was a roaring success, googlebombing "unelectable" has been a miserable failure. Though someone registered unelectable.com (#4) and pointed it at Bush's bio, and though...
View ArticleSenator's wife sues for [malpractice] damages he wants to curb
While the Missouri Senate's president is pushing for a state constitutional amendment capping jury awards in malpractice cases, his wife is suing her opthamologist for the very sort of damages (pain...
View ArticleStanding
How do six lawmakers and a church have standing to review a divorce granted to two people who wanted it? The Iowa Supreme Court is letting them.
View ArticleOne marriage amendment voted down
As you should know, the Massachusetts General Court (Legislature) is meeting as a Constitutional Convention today to consider anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments. So far, the first such...
View ArticleMA ConCon adjourns without passing amendment
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention has adjourned for the evening without passing any of the proposed anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendments. The proposed bi-partisan compromise amendment...
View ArticleMA ConCon reconvenes to consider marriage amendments
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention just reconvened to consider proposed constitutional amendments to ban same-sex marriage. Although last night's proposals were voted down, it is unclear that...
View ArticleMA ConCon continues; Travis amendment defeated
It looks like the (revised) Travis amendment was defeated 96-103, and the Convention is now in recess until 7:45pm. This appears to have been the new compromise that was caucused on this afternoon and...
View ArticleMA Convention adjourns until March 11
The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention adjourned at midnight until March 11 without taking any further votes. What'll happen next at that point is anyone's guess.
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