By Ian Millhiser on Feb 3, 2012 at 7:44 am
- Five hundred of the 1.6 million women lost a major class action suit against Walmart thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Walmart v. Dukes filed new sex discrimination claims in an attempt to preserve what remains of their right to be free from discrimination.
- Ari Berman explains how GOP lawmakers are using gerrymandering to segregate voters into race-based districts.
- Dahlia Lithwick explains why Stephen Colbert is making a fool of the five justices who joined the Citizens United opinion. Sadly, the justices don’t seem to care.
- In a hopeful sign that voters are starting to wise up to the voter disenfranchising con game behind Voter ID laws, more than 30 people spoke out at a hearing yesterday on Minnesota’s proposed plan to suppress minority, student and low-income votes.
- The Second Circuit ordered two “truther” lawyers to pay $15,000 in sanctions plus double the government’s cost of defending the case after they sued claiming that “then-Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld [] caus[ed] the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in order to create a political atmosphere that would allow the U.S. government to pursue domestic and international policy objectives.”
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