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Legislators and social conservative activists misused the state’s judicial retention elections in order to attack judges that upheld the rights of same-sex couples, several people familiar with the process say, and are now misusing the another process by pushing to impeach other judges from the bench.

Nothing surprising here. Here’s the statement in full: The President has said repeatedly that he wants to look forward, not back, and the President agrees with

Over at our sister site Michigan Messenger, Ed Brayton reports that the lawyer representing Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign in a class-action, voting rights

Ben Smith previewed the latest conservative manifesto-cum-PR-event launching in the run-up to CPAC, and the text is after the jump. RightWingWatch has a good

According to critics of laws forcing employers to pay women wages equal to those of men, government-enforced wage equity is an unfair burden on employers and

Three hours after airing his deep concerns that some, DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen and DNC Chairman Tim Kaine in particular, are dangerously fanning the

For their last appearance in the three-day gauntlet of congressional hearings, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry reunited today before the

The most significant quote in this Washington Post piece about the post-Northwest Airlines Flight 253 debate on national security comes from Sen. Jeff Sessions

The Washington Post, in the course of reporting on an Afghanistan war game conducted by Defense Department planners, notes that the Obama administration has

For a civic group that bristles at charges of generating even the most suggestive air of violence, the 9.12 Project sure likes its handguns. Around the country,

Dear Ms. Cheney, I don’t know if you saw ’Meet The Press’ this morning, but a general you may have heard of named David Petraeus -- he’s the commander of

Here’s a good game for a rainy Sunday. Several credit card companies have launched a new Website designed to help struggling card users manage their debts

A study by an Oregon fair-housing audit firm detailing widespread housing discrimination in Portland has compelled Oregon lawmakers to put pressure on the state

The coal industry just lost another one. Alliant Energy announced it is canceling a proposed $1.8 billion power plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. Despite new

When the Republican National Committee launched the new version of GOP.com, Zachary Roth noticed that Michael Zak, an author and speaker who argues that the

<p>Marty Lederman has a <a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/01/real-cia-tapes-scandal-that-everyone-is.html">typically excellent

Here’s some good news for the long-term unemployed poised to exhaust their jobless benefits in the midst of Sen. Jim Bunning’s (R-Ky.) one-man stand against a

As Spencer noted earlier, detainee advocates like the ACLU are hailing President Obama’s decision to seek a 120-day stay of the military commissions proceedings

Earlier this month, a CNN poll found that more Americans oppose the Afghanistan war than support it for (what I think was) the first time since the 2001