The best signs at the Supreme Court this morning
A protester huddled under a tarp as snow fell before sunrise in front of the Supreme Court. The court will hear two same-sex marriage cases this week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
"Life is tough for white people in America. A few hundred years of presumed superiority have left many of them psychologically unable to deal with failure, trapped in a cycle of victimhood where their own shortcomings can only be understood as evidence of persecution against them."
Gawker.com “The White Student Suing to Overthrow Affirmative Action Was too Dumb to Get into Her Chosen College”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on women taking over the Supreme Court.
Happy 80th Birthday, Justice Ginsburg!
"…it’s hard for me to read the sort of stuff Justice Scalia says these days without seeing red. As he’s aged, he’s tossed aside any pretense or desire to hide the fact that he sees himself as what originalists and advocates of judicial restraint are supposed to be against: namely, an appointed super legislator, contemptuous of Congress and happy to impose his own beliefs by judicial fiat. Hearing him rail about “racial entitlement” sounds more like you’re listening to some sort of talk radio blowhard than a Supreme Court Justice."
"The results of our review are clear,” said ASA President Cecilia Ridgeway. “There is no evidence that children with parents in stable same-sex or opposite-sex relationships differ in terms of well-being. Indeed, the greater stability offered by marriage for same-sex as well as opposite-sex parents may be an asset for child well-being.”
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“When the social science evidence is exhaustively examined—which the ASA has done—the facts demonstrate that children fare just as well when raised by same-sex parents,” states the ASA amicus brief. “Unsubstantiated fears regarding same-sex child rearing do not overcome these facts and do not justify upholding DOMA and Proposition 8.”
"American Sociological Association files an amicus brief with US Supreme Court in same-sex marriage case.
Scalia calls the Voting Rights Act the "perpetuation of racial entitlement"
Quick, someone tell Antonin Scalia that being a white male is the epitome of “racial entitlement.”
David Gregory: “Who is your model Supreme Court justice?
Scott Brown: “That’s a great question. I think Justice Scalia is a very good judge.
Elizabeth Warren: (TOTALLY NOT FACEPALMING)
I heard a peal of delight and turned around — that’s the picture at the top of this post. Hilary Matfess, a young policy analyst, was jumping up and down, yelling out details.
“The mandate is constitutional! It was upheld! Roberts went for the swing vote! Yes! Oh my God! The individual mandate survives as a tax!”
Did you work on passing the bill? I asked.
“No!” said Matfess. “I just have lupus!”
- David Weigel at Slate
