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Prediction: Supreme Court will strike down gay marriage bans, and it won’t be close

Posted on 2013.03.25 by winterSmith 3 comments

Gay marriage will finally get its day before the Supreme Court. The issues are legally and culturally complex and the outcome uncertain in the eyes of many observers. I’m no Constitutional scholar, but I think I know what might happen here. I expect that the Court’s left-leaning justices will vote to strike down gay marriage bans (the Defense of Marriage

Freedom/Privacy
LGBT
Politics/Law/Government

Biz: SCOTUS to hear Sarbanes-Oxley challenge

Posted on 2009.05.19 by winterSmith 3 comments

Several years ago, in the wake of Enron and several similar debacles, it was rightfully agreed that we needed to assure more responsible behavior on the part of American corporations. The result was Sarbanes-Oxley, a law that has since been at the center of any number of debates over the difference between “we should do something” and “DO SOMETHING!!!” I’m

Business