constitution

The essential part of the California Supreme Court’s analysis in upholding Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage today is that the court decided that Prop 8 was an “amendment” to the state constitution, rather than a “revision” to the constitution. An amendment, under California law, can be made by a majority of voters. Given that [...]

Supporters of homeschool constitutional amendment courting Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) as he fends off conservative challengers.

Although Eric Holder has been careful not to say he made a mistake in recommending a pardon for the members of FALN, a Puerto Rican paramilitary group regarded by many as a terrorist organization, he’s used some pretty interesting terminology to walk around it.

As Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey busily works to bury the abuses of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court may be getting ready to hand President George W. Bush yet another repudiation of his handling of detainees in the so-called global war on terror.
The high court decided today to review the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah [...]

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.

As The Washington Post previewed this morning, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics, a watchdog group, along with two historians and three historical organizations, filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court this afternoon against the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives.
The lawsuit doesn’t concern anything Cheney has actually [...]

Last night, at the Republican National Convention, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a dig at Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, for what’s apparently become an embarrassing notion to Republicans: the American commitment to civil rights.
“Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America,” Palin pronounced in her folksy Alaskan twang. “He’s [...]