The Law Blog

Vice President Biden suggested Monday evening that Republicans might try to challenge Social Security in court in the same manner they’ve challenged healthcare reform.

The vice president asserted that the GOP could wage a challenge to Social Security’s constitutionality over the entitlement program’s requirement that all taxpayers participate.

Biden noted at a fundraiser for Dan Onorato, the Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, that "Tom Corbett is one of a dozen Republican attorneys general actually suing” to challenge the healthcare law, referring to the state’s attorney general and GOP candidate for governor.++

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/123727-biden-gop-could-challenge-social-security-in-court

Because Joe Biden is a lying fear monger

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=lsj&sParam=34669869.story

"An assistant attorney general is using his personal blog to target the openly gay leader of the University of Michigan’s student assembly, calling him a racist with a "radical homosexual agenda." The lawyer claims that when he’s not at work, he has the right to say whatever he wants.

But the vociferous criticism has raised questions of just how far a civil servant can go, and whether Andrew Shirvell’s online attacks — which include putting a swastika over a gay pride flag in a photo of 21-year-old Chris Armstrong — should affect his job."

I’m not sure what to think about this issue myself. On the one hand, it is his first amendment right to post this stuff. On the other, it does seem to me that (if nothing else) the guy must have a few screws loose if he’s that obsessed with a gay student assembly leader.

One does not lose his First Amendment rights by taking a job with the State. He has stated he is concerned about the direction the Student Assembly leadership is taking his alma mater. While I agree it might be a bit over the top, I think the reaction to it has been more so. The fact that a public university has banned one of its own alumni from setting foot on the campus because it disagrees with him exercising rights he clearly enjoys as an American citizen is beyond ridiculous.