Lawsuit asks feds to overrule Alaska Constitution
Update 8/28/09: My attention had been brought to three factual errors in this blog post. I’m happy to say that only one of them was mine; the other two were in sources I quote here. In any case,...
View ArticleMiller v. Carpeneti: Where was the press?
[Crossposted at Celtic Diva's Blue Oasis.] Since posting a couple of early A.M.’s ago about a new lawsuit that seeks to overturn provisions of the Alaska Constitution with respect to judicial selection...
View ArticleThe Daily Tweets, 2009-08-30: Wingnut attack tweets
Writing another blog post about conservatives’ attempt to get federal court to overrule Alaska Constitution. Do I hear “judicial activism”? # RT: @yksin: Blogged at Henkimaa: Miller v. Carpeneti:...
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Miller v. Carpeneti: The conservatives behind the attack on Alaska judicial...
Nesbett Courthouse in downtown Anchorage, part of the Alaska Court System I’ve done a lot of reading over the last couple of weeks about Miller v. Carpeneti (originally Hinger v. Carpeneti), the...
View ArticleMiller v. Carpeneti: Case dismissed
The oral arguments from James Bopp, Jr. on the plaintiffs’ side and from Jeffrey Feldman on the defendants’ side took up about an hour; at the end of that time, Judge John H. Sedwick was brief and to...
View ArticleMiller v. Carpeneti: Judge Sedwick's opinion
Just released: Justice John W. Sedwick’s Order and Opinion in the case of Miller v. Carpeneti (3:09-cv-00136-JWS) in which plaintiffs sought to prevent the attorney menbers of the Alaska Judicial...
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My story of 2009
And so I begin the new year by coming out of a period of silence. A silence, to be sure, less profound than the one I inhabited this time last year. And for different reasons. In the last month or...
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Is Alaska Governor Sean Parnell a Christian dominionist?
And just what is a “Christian dominionist”? Well, it’s a lot like a Christianist. Here’s Wikipedia: In a politico-religious context, dominionism (also called subjectionism) is the tendency among some...
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