(CNN) – Conservative legal scholar Ted Olson has been tapped to play the role of Vice President Joe Biden in Paul Ryan‘s debate prep sessions, Mitt Romney‘s campaign said Saturday. The two men participated in their first mock debate session last week. Olson is one of the fiercest legal minds of his generation and successfully…
According to reports at QUEERtimes, local activist and businessman Mel Heifetz has donated one million dollars to the Obama campaign in support of Super PAC, Priorities USA Action campaign. “I did it after hearing my favorite comedian, Bill Maher, speak of his having given a similar amount as well. It occurred to me we all…
While legal scholars continue to argue about whether the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) simultaneously gutted the Commerce Clause, we can turn what’s left of our tolerance for mind-numbing legal analysis back to Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court challenge to Proposition 8. To recap, Proposition 8 is the 2008…
Here we are in San Diego, Calif. a city on the U.S. border with Mexico. We live within a nation of immigrants in a state that used to be a part of the country of Mexico. And here we are, as LGBT Californians – as LGBT Americans – aware of how we aren’t granted the…
Attorneys for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after it ruled the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional the Washington Blade is reporting. Drew Hammill, spokesperson for Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), told the news source that House Republicans notified the Democratic leadership counsel that an appeal was filed…
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a series of legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, upholding the historic law passed in the last Congress to reform our nation’s healthcare system. As part of that reform, the Act created or paved the way for important new protections…
The fight for same-sex marriage has been lambasted by the right as the greatest threat to the institution of marriage since divorce. “It will destroy marriage as we know it,” shout the voices of fear and hate. Guess what? Those voices are potentially right. But achieving marriage equality for gays, lesbians and bisexual Americans in…
A new Field Poll released Wednesday shows that support for same-sex marriage in California has increased with 59% of residents favoring same-sex unions. The poll showed that the largest increase in approval since 2010 came from middle-aged voters, nonpartisans and Republicans. Other significant gains in support come from Catholics, Latinos and older voters. “This is…
Same-sex couples who wish to marry in California will have to wait a while longer for their constitutional rights following a reconsideration filed by Prop 8 backers Tuesday. Supporters of the anti-equality measure have slowed its path to the U.S. Supreme Court by asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its Feb. 7 ruling in favor…
STRASBOURG, France – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled Sweden’s Supreme Court was right to convict four men of hate crimes for distributing homophobic flyers at a school. According to the ECHR finding, the leaflets were “unnecessarily offensive” to be protected by free speech laws. According to Swedish news source The Local,…
