Supreme Court says banks are subject to some state laws

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can apply some of their own laws to big national banks operating within their borders, a decision proponents called a huge win for consumers and for states seeking more power to regulate financial activities. The...

EasyWidget Leads to Petition on Judge Sotomayor's Confirmation

Click here to get the HTML code for the above EasyWidget.Progressive are strongly supporting "wise Latina woman" Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination for the US Supreme Court.  For example, African American blogger Atty. Francis L. Holland, whose previous efforts toward...

Politics and substance in the Sotomayor nomination

by Frank Kaufmann May 31, 2009We are moving toward a just society.Not because we are seeing things in the moment grow increasingly just, but because the instruments necessary for justice are gradually falling into place.Injustice is possible under conditions of imbalance of...

A Latina on Supreme Court IS Better than 77% White Male Court

Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog.Judge Sonia Sotomayor is right.  WIth a US Supreme Court that is 77% white male in a country less than 30% white male, Sotomayor's experience as a Latina woman is much more needed and "better" on the Court than that of yet...

In Defense of Sonia Sotomayor

by Yvette D. Carnell There is nothing so demeaning to political discourse as the injection of race as a weapon, so I’ve  become increasingly livid over the past few days while watching right wing hit squads refer to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a...