0 category, that characterization of the term, for purposes of heightened skrut me, i would, your honor. really? they re falling over to endorse your side of the case. fact of the matter, no other group in recent history was subjected to popular referenda to take away rights already given or exclude those rights the way gay people have. i don t think, and until 1990, gay people weren t allowed to enter this country. so i don t think that the political power of gay people today could possibly be seen within that framework. joining me, elizabeth birch that fought against passage of doma in 1996. she was in the supreme courtroom today. amy howe, and former vermont governor howard dean, first governor to sign a civil unions bill. elizabeth birch, i have to ask about the seat change. even justice scalia said there has been this seat change between now and 1996. you were there fighting against it. what did it feel like to be in the courtroom today watching what many of us believe is th
virtually every major republican analyst. bounce with me. come on, bounce with me a little bit. come on. bounce with me, indeed. it s the first week after the election, and the big story was supposed to be the looming fiscal cliff. but there s nothing like a high profile sex scandal to distract washington. with headlines dominated today by the abrupt resignation of cia director david petraeus over an extramarital affair. some lawmakers are now calling for an inquiry. we re now learning that high-level officials at the fbi and the justice department were notified in late summer that fbi agents had uncovered the affair that led to petraeus downfall. it all started in early june when a florida woman named jill kelley pictures here with her husband, petraeus, and his wife, alerted agents to e-mails she described as e-mails. they told kelley, a petraeus family friend, to stop socializing with generals. those anonymous e-mails led investigators to paula broadwell and evidenc
0 ever known how do you know it s been a bad week for the republican presidential nominee? that s when willard mitt romney wants to change the subject to his tax returns. yes, you heard me right. that s how bad things have become for mr. romney. the meeting went something like this. someone on the campaign suggested bringing out a whiteboard on an airplane tarmac. that got shot down. they ve already done the veep rollout. too late, i guess, to do that again. a foreign trip? i don t think that s such a good idea. the entire foreign front has proved a complete and utter disaster. but then came the eureka moment. one hour ago, 3:00 p.m. on a friday afternoon to be exact, the campaign decided it would finally release the romneys full 2011 tax returns. mitt and ann paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million. an effective rate of just over weekend about the fact that seniors are not buying the snake oil that they are trying to sell to them. i have never s
how do you know it s been a bad week for the republican presidential nominee? that s when willard mitt romney wants to change the subject to his tax returns. yes, you heard me right. that s how bad things have become for mr. romney. the meeting went something like this. someone on the campaign suggested bringing out a whiteboard on an airplane tarmac. that got shot down. they ve already done the veep rollout. too late, i guess, to do that again. a foreign trip? i don t think that s such a good idea. the entire foreign front has proved a complete and utter disaster. but then came the eureka moment. one hour ago, 3:00 p.m. on a friday afternoon to be exact, the campaign decided it would finally release the romneys full 2011 tax returns. mitt and ann paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million. an effective rate of just over 14%. the release showing just how fraught the romney campaign must be with seven days to go before early voting begins in