Pema Levy

Yesterday, Annie Lowrey had a great piece about the political activism of the unemployed. Many unemployed Americans have turned to political activism, particularly online, as their job searches have come up empty and benefits run dry: Among the biggest sites in the unemployment netroots is LayoffList, managed by Michael Thornton, a native of Rochester, N.Y. […]

On Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that Quinnipiac College in New Haven, Connecticut, could not count varsity cheerleading as a sport for the purposes of complying with Title IX, the 1972 federal law that expanded women’s access to sports by mandating gender equity in education: Competitive cheer may, some time in the future, qualify as […]

Since the Supreme Court’s decision to incorporate the Second Amendment in McDonald v. Chicago last month, there has been a legitimate fear that the decision will endanger sensible gun regulations – in particular laws forbidding those convicted of domestic violence from owning guns. But yesterday the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in United States […]

As Scott Lemieux noted yesterday, the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. Chicago “incorporated” the Second Amendment so that the individual right to bear arms now applies to all levels of government, including the states. This will lead to a slew of new cases trying to roll back gun-control laws. Alarmingly, some believe that one […]

Yesterday, star lawyer team Ted Olson and David Boies made their closing arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal challenge to California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that barred gay people from getting married in the state (you can read the transcript here). Excitement was high: The conservative National Organization for Marriage live-blogged this “civil […]