Unless she had a major change-of-heart in the last decade-and-a-half, Bush's Supreme Court nominee is actually pro-GLBT! Or, she was at least willing to commit to writing, in 1989, her agreement that gays/lesbians should have "the same civil rights" as straights. There's plenty of room to play with this, of course -- "sure you have the right to ( Read more... )

Rehnquist is dead.

I don't know what this means. Normally, a two-fer would send the Bush team to the bank, to cash in two conservatives (one wacko, one generously not-quite-so-wacho). But these aren't normal circumstances. He's already labelled the federal response "unacceptable" which, (I'm not sure but I think) might be his first ( Read more... )