Posts Tagged ‘supreme court’

The Need for Independence

Posted by Eric B. on July 16th, 2009 under Media, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,  •  2 Comments

I’ve had glasses since I was nine years old. I moved to contacts when I was fourteen. I was young and dumb and twice left my contacts in for six months. If you sleep in your contacts, they are kind of cloudy when you wake up, so I would pull nose hairs to [...]

Sotomayor - What Do You Think?

Posted by Eric on July 13th, 2009 under Politics, supreme court Tags:  •  5 Comments

So much has already been written on this, but I do not believe it has been talked about here and I want to know what you think.
Today is the first day of the Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court Justice nominee hearings.  The major attack point to her is her notorious quote, below:
“I would hope that a [...]

Sonia, Sonia, Sonia

Posted by Eric B. on May 28th, 2009 under Uncategorized Tags: , ,  •  1 Comment

Sonia, Sonia, Sonia… that used to just be the name of a hot Mortal Kombat character. Today it is so much more. I’m curious what you think of Obama’s nomination (Sonia Sotomayer).
Pros:

More years experience than any current Supreme Court Nominee when they were [...]

The Way to Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race is to Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race

Posted by Taylor on April 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized Tags: , , ,  •  2 Comments

A few years ago in a case known as Parents Involved, Chief Justice Roberts said,
“The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
Now, a new case has surfaced which is even more blatantly discriminating on the basis of race than in Parents Involved. 
In New Haven, [...]