Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCOTUS. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Why The Supreme Court Must Strike Down DOMA


  1. Corporations, per the Citizens United decision, are people.
  2. Corporations are ungendered; therefore, all of them are the same sex.
  3. Same sex unions are expressly forbidden in the Defense Of Marriage act.
  4. Any corporate merger could, therefore, be challenged and defeated.
You could say that SCOTUS could simply leave it up to the states to decide, but that would mean states decide WHICH CORPORATION gets to do business in them. Vonage could challenge ATT and wind up with all of Oregon. Sure it's a specious argument, but that's cold comfort if you're spending 3 years and millions of dollars of legal fees fighting it.

Monday, April 09, 2012

Quote of the Day - Fully Precedented Edition

Hey WAMK: You voted for him!

"What the Supreme Court did is a combination of arrogance, naivete and stupidity the likes of which I have never seen. ...I promise you, there will be huge scandals because there's too much money washing around, too much of it we don't know who's behind it and too much corruption associated with that kind of money."
John McCain, discussing the potential upcoming Supreme Court case revisiting Citizens United. Will this upset the balance of power? Should people in office refrain from discussing Supreme Court business? Inviting your comments.