You knew it was coming: opponents of the healthcare reform bill here in Arkansas are agog in the wake of Judge Henry Hudson’s ruling that the individual mandate-portion of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. One of those most giddy…
Tag: U.S. Supreme Court
AR-House Dist. 46: On David Meeks's Bill
I suppose it says something about this blogger’s ego that my first thought when I saw David Meeks’s prefiled HB 1053, was Meeks had noticed that I wasn’t posting much of late and felt that he should give me something…
AR-02: Can't we have one meeting that doesn't end with us digging up a corpse?
Defying logic and common sense to the bitter end, Robbie Wills continues to claim that he is exempt from taxation on the benefit of driving a state-owned vehicle as Speaker of the House. In an article in Monday’s Dem-Gazette, Seth…
Immigration: Judge Correctly Blocks Some Parts Of AZ Immigration Law
Well this is sure to draw scads of hyperbolic, ignorant, and/or legally inaccurate rants from conservative television and radio (and probably from Mike Ross, as he seems to tow the Republican line on this issue, even going so far as…
AR Sec. State: Intelligent Design And Unintelligent Legislation
When Robbie Wills launched his attack against Joyce Elliott’s voting record in the days leading up the runoff, I wrote a post explaining why it was foolish to fault Elliott for voting against a bill that was, without a doubt,…
SCOTUS: Gun Decision Not As Broad As You've Probably Been Told
I hope to have more on the decision in the near future, especially Clarence Thomas’s surprising Fourteenth Amendment discussion in his concurrence, but I wanted to get a couple thoughts out on last week’s McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561…
AR-Sen: Lincoln Chooses Big Oil Over Environment, Pryor Obediently Follows
While I was out-of-pocket last week, Senate Joint Resolution 26 went down to defeat in the Senate by a score of 53 to 47. Better known as “The Murkowski Amendment” after its author and sponsor, Sen. Lisa Murkowsi (Idiot-AK), SJR…
AR-02: Wills Embraces Absurdity, Sends Out Second Mailer
Given the overwhelming negative response to Robbie Wills’ most recent mailer, you would think that he and his camp would have had the common sense not to continue down that path. You would be wrong. Ugh. Jeff already hit on…
AR-Sen [Follow-up]: If Not Mitchell Berry, Then Who?
Yesterday, I mentioned (and Blue Arkansas detailed more fully) an attack ad against Bill Halter that was created by a group headed by Marion Berry’s son, Mitchell. Except, then it wasn’t headed by Mitchell Berry; he was merely the lawyer…