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PostPosted: 11/28/11 5:59 am • # 1 
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ThinkProgress has a daily [M-F] "JusticeLine" that generally notes significant legal issues ~ and sometimes [like today's] some very funny issues ~ it's a good source for updates on current legal matters ~

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Justiceline: November 28, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Nov 28, 2011 at 8:00 am

Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice's morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice.

[list] [*]Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) will seek an emergency stay of a federal court decision striking down Texas' state legislative maps in the Supreme Court of the United States. To date, two federal courts and the Department of Justice have criticized the Texas maps for failing to give legally required representation to minorities. [*]Meanwhile, the West Virginia Supreme Court upheld that state's state legislative maps. [*]Advocacy groups are expected to spend millions of dollars trying to influence the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act. (Full disclosure: CAP and your humble Justice Editor represent several groups supporting the law on a pro bono basis.) [*]Likewise, both pro-marriage equality and anti-gay groups are expected to pour millions into a fight over a proposed North Carolina constitutional amendment that would write anti-gay discrimination into the state constitution. [*]A Wisconsin state lawmaker reignites the fight over the the [url=http://www.wrn.com/2011/11/personhood-amenment-proposed/]anti-abortion, and potentially anti-contraception “personhoodâ€


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Justiceline: November 29, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Nov 29, 2011 at 7:38 am

Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice's morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice.

[list] [*]Congratulations to Judge Christopher Droney, who was confirmed yesterday to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. [*]The Supreme Court unsurprisingly did not add Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's attack on the Affordable Care Act to the list of cases it will hear this year. The Fourth Circuit recently dismissed Cuccinelli's case on the grounds that he had no legal right to challenge the law in the first place. [*]A member of the [url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/FBI-Spanaway-sovereign-citizen-planned-to-2299295.php]far-right “sovereign citizensâ€
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Justiceline: November 30, 2011

By Marie Diamond on Nov 30, 2011 at 8:22 am

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[list] [*]A group of right-wing Christian groups are staging a “live nativity sceneâ€
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Justiceline: December 1, 2011

By Marie Diamond on Dec 1, 2011 at 8:16 am

Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice's morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice.

  • Florida's new law making students who have lived in the state all their lives pay out-of-state tuition if they can't prove their parents are in the country legally may violate the equal protection clause.
  • Students are starting to feel the effects of many states' new voter ID laws which disproportionately effect groups like them that tend to vote Democrat.
  • Yesterday the governors of Washington and Rhode Island asked the federal government to ease rules on marijuana to allow for its medical use in states like theirs that have decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes. 16 states now allow medical marijuana but are still at risk of federal prosecution for regulating the safe distribution of the drug.
  • Yesterday the National Labor Relations Board voted to approve a rule that will eliminate delays between when employees file for a vote on whether to start a union and the day the ballots are cast. Republicans, who are upset the NLRB still even exists, naturally opposed the decision.
  • Ahead of the 2012 election, state election officials are going on a high-tech blitz, making it easier to cast ballots and get information through iPads, online voting, and social media.

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Justiceline: December 2, 2011

By Marie Diamond on Dec 2, 2011 at 8:18 am

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[list] [*]Arguing that child labor teaches important “life lessons,â€
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Justiceline: December 5, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 5, 2011 at 7:30 am

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[list] [*]Occupy Pensacola had the terrible luck to draw Tea Party Judge Roger Vinson to hear their First Amendment claim that they should be allowed to maintain their 24 hour protest at the Pensacola city hall. Vinson infamously wrote an error-laden opinion striking down the Affordable Care Act that included a shout out to the Tea Party. [*]Virginia Tech will challenge a $55,000 fine it received after the horrific mass shooting on its campus four years ago. The fine was levied after federal officials determined that the school was too slow in notifying its students, faculty and staff about the shooting. [*]The crack reporting team at the Daily Caller tries to pin the Fast and Furious non-scandal on President Obama, because Obama met several times with the Deputy Attorney General, and the DAG must have had nothing better to talk to the president about then incompetent decisions by low-level officials. Or something. [*]An estate sale at the home of the late former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart turned out a surprising number of treasure hunters. What were they looking for? They'll know it when they see it. [*]The National Review provides an uncharacteristically accurate one-line description of Fox News' top legal analyst: “A Very Nice Man, but a Constitutional Quack.â€
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Justiceline: December 6, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 6, 2011 at 7:57 am

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http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/12/06/382630/justiceline-december-6-2011/
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Justiceline: December 7, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 7, 2011 at 7:38 am

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[list] [*]A Virginia court of appeals exonerated Thomas Haynesworth's wrongful conviction for rape. Haynesworth spent 27 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. [*]The Supreme Court appears poised to entrench a doctrine requiring the lab analyst who actually performed a test incriminating a criminal defendant to testify at the person's trial. [*]The Ohio Senate will consider a bill that bans all abortions the minute a heartbeat can be detected in the fetus — a bill that conflicts directly with the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade line of cases. [*]JoAnne Kloppenburg, who barely lost her bid to become a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice to conservative Justice David Prosser, files papers to run for a court of appeals judgeship. [*]The American Heritage Dictionary correctly identifies the term “anchor babiesâ€
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Justiceline: December 8, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 8, 2011 at 8:01 am

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[list] [*]The full United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit will consider whether a law targeting Westboro Baptist-style funeral protests survives scrutiny under the First Amendment. [*]The state of Utah hasn't had a full complement of federal judges for more than two years. [*]Several states and localities are experimenting with laws [url=http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98277/crisis-pregnancy-center-abortion]targeting deceptive “crisis pregnancy centers,â€
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PostPosted: 12/08/11 6:16 am • # 11 
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And, finally, the cookbook honoring Justice Ginsburg's late husband Martin looks fantastic. Rep. Ron Paul's cookbook, not so much.

The only recipes Ron Paul has are for dead meat. [img]/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/wink.gif[/img]
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Justiceline: December 9, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 9, 2011 at 7:57 am

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[list] [*]A law professor named Eric Segall, who [url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/12/obamacare_and_the_supreme_court_should_elena_kagan_recuse_herself_.single.html]claims to be a “liberal constitutional law professorâ€
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Confederate activists sue the state of Texas claiming they have a First Amendment right to have the state produce a specialty license place with a Confederate battle flag on it.

You lost the civil war, boneheads.
Grow up and deal with it.
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Justiceline: December 12, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 12, 2011 at 7:51 am

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[list] [*]The Supreme Court could announce as soon as today whether they will hear Gov. Jan Brewer's (R-AZ) request to consider a lower court decision enjoining that state's anti-immigrant law SB 1070. [*]Jonathan Berstein explains the Roosevelt Precedent, which will allow President Obama to appoint CFPB Director-in-waiting Richard Cordray via a recess appointment. [*]Justice Sonia Sotomayor warns that America is “not going to have a system of justice you're proud ofâ€
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Justiceline: December 13, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 13, 2011 at 7:47 am

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Justiceline: December 14, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 14, 2011 at 8:01 am

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[list] [*]The Senate will vote today on two ill-conceived balanced budget amendments, including a Senate GOP version that would “throw about 15 million more people out of work, double the unemployment rate from 9 percent to approximately 18 percent, and cause the economy to shrink by about 17 percent instead of growing by an expected 2 percent.â€
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Justiceline: December 15, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 15, 2011 at 7:45 am

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[list] [*]The Senate soundly rejected two balanced budget amendment proposals yesterday, including the Senate GOP version that would “throw about 15 million more people out of work, double the unemployment rate from 9 percent to approximately 18 percent, and cause the economy to shrink by about 17 percent instead of growing by an expected 2 percent.â€
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Justiceline: December 16, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 16, 2011 at 8:16 am

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Justiceline: December 19, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 19, 2011 at 7:48 am

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Justiceline: December 20, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 20, 2011 at 7:39 am

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[list] [*]Politico details the lavish salaries one can earn as the head of a corporate lobby group. The head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, lives large with a $4.8 million salary. [*]Anti-abortion, anti-birth control “personhoodâ€
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Justiceline: December 21, 2011

By Ian Millhiser on Dec 21, 2011 at 8:27 am

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[list] [*]A few reporters are starting to notice that Justice Scalia's past opinions lead to the conclusion that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. [*]New Hampshire Republicans ram a new state legislative map through a committee on a largely party-line vote, despite concerns that it violates the state constitution. [*]What Justice Sotomayor's lone dissent in an obscure Indian trust case says about her as a justice. [*]A proposed Florida constitutional amendment which would allow more state funds to go to religious organizations is back on the state's ballot. [*]NPR listeners select four U.S. constitutional amendments they'd like to see ratified: “abolish the Electoral College, [] limit campaign contributions from corporations, [] deny corporations the rights of citizens and [] prohibit members of Congress from lobbying once they leave officeâ€
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Pennsylvania police, who arrested a woman for trying to trade sex for World Series tickets after an elaborate sting operation. The woman's conviction on prostitution charges was just tossed out.

That's base-balling not prostitution.
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She walked on balls.
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Sidartha wrote:
She walked on balls.
Jesusphena, dat you?
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