Harriet Miers

Why is this man smiling? Jeffrey Toobin walks us through the ongoing conservative capture of our state courts

The clown justice gets the last laugh.by KenWe've heard and read a lot about the heavy investments made by the billionaires of the Right in the decade before the 2010 census and ensuing reapportionment to gain control of as many governorships and state legislative houses as possible, and we've head and read a lot about the direct effect on legislative agendas -- spearheaded by such luminaries of the rich and reactionary as Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Ohio's John Kasich, Michigan'