Showing posts with label Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Guy Sings Justice Ginsburg's Hobby Lobby Dissent

There are always high profile Supreme Court cases that one side or the other will be very disappointed about. But the Hobby Lobby case still leaves me very confused. As I said earlier, contraception and abortion aren't my issues. But the Pandora's Box that has been opened by allowing religious exemptions to laws? The pitfalls just seem so obvious. The legal reasoning seems so flimsy. I feel confident enough to predict: this case will lead to many and varied cases of companies trying to duck laws they don't like, bogus religions seeing what they can get away with, and even more bizarre claims of corporate personhood. But hey, it's not all doom and gloom, right? There are even ways to make the best of it. Like this guy.
 

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Gay Thing: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Performs Same-sex Wedding

You go, you adorable, tiny little judge you! Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the first Supreme Court Justice to officiate a wedding for a gay couple. I haven't checked yet (but you know I'm right), but surely Right Wing World is spinning all wobbly over the news. I'm sure there will be calls for her to recuse herself from any case that has a whiff of "the gay" about it. I hope she refuses. As long as Clarence Thomas' wife is allowed to lobby her conservative causes, there is really no room to talk from the right. And why should performing a wedding--something SCOTUS justices are permitted to do--be a political act anyway?

Image from source, Salon
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes first Supreme Court justice to officiate at same-sex wedding

On Saturday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put on her finest neck doily and made history as the first member of the United States Supreme Court to officiate at a gay wedding. Ginsburg conducted the ceremony between John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts, both longtime friends. . .

Read more at: Salon
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