Defense of Marriage Act, ObamaCare and Kagan

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 08:37 PM  | 

President Obama’s decision today to abandon the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is both outrageous—as a matter of Justice Department policy and constitutional law—and a miscalculation that will decreases the chances of ObamaCare being implemented, while potentially increasing calls for Supreme Court Justice Kagan to recuse herself from certain gay rights cases. The President’s refusal to defend DOMA, a federal statute enacted by overwhelming margins | Read More »

2010 Election: Denial, Elitism, and Possible Overinterpretation

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  November 5th at 12:19 AM  | 

I’m glad to see that President Obama and the rest of the Democratic leadership don’t get that Tuesday’s massive defeat was a repudiation of Democrat policies.  I had thought Democrats would do some honest self-evaluation for at least a few days—as they seemed to do following Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts—before convincing themselves the message was not about them.  But this time the denial was | Read More »