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Anti-abortion measures are advancing in state legislatures all around the country. Here’s the latest: # Alaska: Legislators halt insurance program for low-income women and children.

Rick Hasen reports on his election law blog that the California high court agreed Wednesday to consider whether Proposition 8 passes muster under the state

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Well, somebody’s making the best of the foreclosure crisis: Skateboarders are having a field day practicing in the empty swimming pools of foreclosed homes, the

In an interview with Matt Lewis, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) moves Ken Cuccinelli’s ball down the field, saying it won’t even be close on how

Politico’s Ben Smith reports: Reacting to a rising tide of anger from gay and lesbian supporters at a series of slights and deferred promises, President Obama

If you want to know why some consumer advocates and others are concerned about current financial regulatory reform proposals to house a Consumer Financial

Several demonstrations and candlelight vigils are taking place Thursday evening in memory of a 19-year-old Waterloo man who died over the weekend following a violent attack. Marcellus Richard Andrews (Photo: Facebook) Marcellus Andrews, of Waterloo, was taken off life support Saturday and officially pronounced dead on Sunday. In the early morning hours of Friday, he was part of a violent brawl that witnesses described as beginning with anti-gay slurs.

A smart piece in The New York Times on Sunday noted that the Pentagon is rethinking its defense posture that prepares for fighting two wars at the same time, a

In an interview today with MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell, former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein agreed with former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger’s

The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board’s much-anticipated vote on a custom license plate featuring the Confederate flag wasn’t quite the nail-biter it had

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here’s The Washington Post’s idea of debate on AIG: The leadoff contributor to the op-ed page’s ’Topic A section is former AIG CEO Maurice Greenberg, who

President Barack Obama has signaled he will not go to bat for birth control in the economic stimulus bill -- a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful