What Good is the 14th Amendment? What Good is the 14th Amendment?
The 14th amendment has done it again! No wonder right wing radicals want to repeal it.
Aug 5, 2010 / Laura Flanders
How Citizens United Twisted Decades of Legal Precedent to Empower Corporations How Citizens United Twisted Decades of Legal Precedent to Empower Corporations
The overwhelming number of Supreme Court cases cited by Justice Anthony Kennedy in his decision were intended to protect the unique First Amendment rights of media outlets, not all...
Jul 30, 2010 / Mel Wulf
Baseball Fans Rally Against Arizona Immigration Law Baseball Fans Rally Against Arizona Immigration Law
The nationwide boycott of the Arizona law has hit the sports arena: demonstrators outside ball parks in cities across the country are demanding that baseball owners move the 2011 A...
Jul 30, 2010 / Democracy Now!
Obama Exceeds Bush in Immigration Enforcement Obama Exceeds Bush in Immigration Enforcement
The number of deportations of undocumented immigrants under President Obama is 10 percent higher than it was under George W. Bush.
Jul 29, 2010 / The Rachel Maddow Show
The Game Change The Game Change
Nine reasons Democrats should embrace immigration reform this year.
Jul 29, 2010 / Feature / Greg Grandin
Baby Baiting Baby Baiting
Senator Lindsey Graham is the latest to join the assault on birthright citizenship, announcing that he may introduce a constitutional amendment banning automatic citizenship to the...
Jul 29, 2010 / Feature / Robin Templeton
Citizens Unite Against ‘Citizens United’ Citizens Unite Against ‘Citizens United’
MoveOn.org is leading a coalition of advocacy groups to overturn the Supreme Court decision.
Jul 29, 2010 / Feature / Ari Berman
Key Provisions of Arizona Immigration Law Blocked by Federal Judge Key Provisions of Arizona Immigration Law Blocked by Federal Judge
The Constitution is clear: the federal judge who blocked implementation of key elements of Arizona's draconian anti-immigration law has no choice but to do so.
Jul 29, 2010 / John Nichols
A Wedge Against Tyranny A Wedge Against Tyranny
Franklin Roosevelt v. the Supreme Court.
Jul 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Michael O’Donnell
Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force Anti-Muslim Bigot and Fanatic Explains Islam to the FBI and the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force
The Council on American Islamic Relations is making noise about the fact that an extremist, right-wing anti-Muslim rabble rouser was "invited to offer training to state and federal law enforcement officers." It sounds like something that might have happened under the administration of President Bush, but no—this happened on Obama's watch. Robert Spencer, co-founder of the group Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), is the culprit. According to CAIR, Spencer was called in recently to pontificate to the Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force. (The JTTFs are law enforcement and intelligence coalitions that began Washington. Soon every jurisdiction wanted the federal dough for a JTTF, and after 9/11 the number of JTTFs exploded.) "Our nation's law enforcement personnel should not receive training from the head of a hate group that seeks to demonize Islam and to prevent American Muslims from exercising their rights as citizens," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper. "Robert Spencer is the same individual who claims in his new book that President Obama is waging 'war on America.' " He noted that Spencer recently co-authored the book, "The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America," that sounds a "wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come." According to Loonwatch, the SIOA is so extreme that it seems almost satirical. Like a Tea Party phalanx of radical anti-Muslim bigots, the SIOA says that its goal is educate Americans "about about the threat that Islamic doctrine and those who support it present to our freedoms, and the future of our democracy and country." Its organizers call themselves "scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government," as well as in "the defense of…our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency." Spencer's co-founder, Pamela Geller, is a piece of work, too. Notes CAIR: Geller has posted images on her blog that include a fake photograph of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in a Nazi uniform, another fake image of President Obama urinating on an American flag and drawings purporting to depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad as a pig. In a June 25 blog entry, Geller posted a video claiming that Muslims engage in bestiality. This needs repudiation—or, as Sarah Palin would say, refudiation—from the Justice Department, and quick.
Jul 26, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss