As expected, the Texas House has passed legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks and placing other restrictions on the operation of abortion clinics, restrictions that supporters say are intended to protect women’s health and will not close down many or … Continue reading →
For biological reasons, men and women are inherently unequal when it comes to their roles in becoming parents. To be exact, women become pregnant and give birth and men don’t, and those differences are likely to remain into the foreseeable … Continue reading →
…powerful testimony that the screamer on the tapes was Zimmerman: A pleasant older man, Donnelly was introduced to the jurors as a physician’s assistant. It also soon emerged, however that he was a close personal friend of Zimmerman’s, and indeed … Continue reading →
Yesterday there should have been a directed verdict, and Hinderaker states why. But of course that’s not what happened. And no one realistically expected it to, either, because this case has been fatally compromised from the start. Hinderaker agrees that … Continue reading →
…Andrew Branca offers an excellent summary of the proceedings so far. Branca is a lawyer and the author of The Law of Self-Defense, which will also be available on Kindle at Amazon soon. Branca posts updates at Legal Insurrection on … Continue reading →
…remember that Legal Insurrection is the go-to place.
Continue reading →…with the Zimmerman trial? The State seems to have suffered the most destructive of its own witnesses to date in calling John Good to the stand.Good was composed, coherent, and direct through his extensive testimony, the entirety of which was … Continue reading →
On the significance of the DOMA decision, Charles Krauthammer says exactly what I was thinking, only he says it better.
Continue reading →…impeaches herself. Egad. Talk about Perry Mason moments: A teenage friend of Trayvon Martin was forced to admit today in the George Zimmerman murder trial that she did not write a letter that was sent to Martin’s mother describing what … Continue reading →
Both the DOMA and Prop 8 decisions ended up favoring gay marriage advocates, but SCOTUS avoided ruling on gay marriage itself at all. The DOMA decision focused on whether the federal government, by an act of Congress that denied federal … Continue reading →
I only have time to write about so much per day, and I’ve pretty much ignored the ongoing Zimmerman trial in my recent posts. But I’ve read about it, and I’ve found that excellent roundups of each day’s proceedings can … Continue reading →
Today, in a 5-4 decision with the usual ideological split, SCOTUS ruled: The Supreme Court on Tuesday freed states from special federal oversight under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, saying the data Congress used to identify the states … Continue reading →