Subject: U.S. Supreme Court

• Fuck You, Sam Brownback

  June 7, 2007

• Kobach Cashes In

  August 1, 2007

• Sugar Creek Hates Grandmas

  October 2, 2007

• The Plant's Dead, But the Fallout's Still Coming Down

  October 24, 2007

• Sugar Creek Mayor: Stupid or Dishonest?

  June 16, 2008

• Supreme Court turns down Kris Kobach

  July 1, 2008

• Pitch Forks

  March 23, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  October 11, 2001

• Royals Flushed

  April 11, 2002

• Sin City

  May 2, 2002

• Offensive Tackle

  November 21, 2002

• Spit It Out

  July 3, 2003

• Queer Abatement

  August 12, 2004

• Corps Vet Simmer

  May 5, 2005

• As Fort Leavenworth waits for word on the future of Gitmo prisoners, here’s an up-close look at the toughest case

  February 26, 2009

• Her Dirty Secret

  Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius preaches green, but her heart seems as black as coal.

  August 9, 2007

• Grocery Sacked

  May 10, 2007

• Too Dim to Die?

  Nadia Pflaum

  November 10, 2005

• Le Tigre

  Tuesday, August 2, at the Granada.

  July 28, 2005

• Burning Man

  Jay Norton's flag artwork plays with fire -- and makes some incendiary statements.

  June 30, 2005

• Blood Simple

  Killing a retarded inmate isn’t that hard — not if you have a cooperative psychiatrist.

  June 9, 2005

• Head Trip

  The TIF Commission says Gigi’s Wigs has to leave its downtown location because ... well, just because.

  May 5, 2005

• Funny Math

  Kansas politicos keep practicing their unique brand of addition.

  April 14, 2005

• Behind the Veil

  What’s with all this talk about getting married, anyway?

  November 18, 2004

• Big Donald

  The Apprentice gets supersized on Isle of Capri's big screen.

  April 15, 2004

• You Got Schooled

  Kansas lawmakers get the smack-down from a judge fed up with the state's places of learning.

  February 19, 2004

• Queer Justice

  A Kansas judge pushes for a population explosion.

  February 12, 2004

• A Boy's Life

  The Supreme Court effectively threw out the Kansas Sodomy Law, but Attorney General Phill Kline won't let Matthew Limon out of jail.

  January 22, 2004

• Children Left Behind

  Once again, adults try to end Kansas City's desegregation case.

  May 22, 2003

• Head Cases

  A man who had sex at Shawnee Mission Park and patrons at a St. Louis porn house carry the baton for gays and lesbians in Kansas and Missouri.

  January 2, 2003

• Little Blight Lies

  Seeking tax kickbacks, developers trash the city with blight studies.

  July 11, 2002

• Roots Revival

  Dalton, Missouri, celebrates its 40 acres and a school.

  June 13, 2002

• So Long, Joe

  While Joe Armine waits to die, Missouri courts won't admit they could have been wrong.

  July 4, 2002

• The Long Walk Home

  Twenty-five years ago this week, the Kansas City school district started making a $2 billion mistake-and blacks are still paying.

  May 23, 2002

• Fallen Angel

  Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

  January 24, 2002

• Compelling Testimony

  Does Kansas’ peter meter rise to the level of thumbscrews?

  June 28, 2001

• Rock and a Hard Place

  Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

  October 5, 2000

• Urban Cowboy

  Can a high school dropout with no law enforcement training run for Jackson County Sheriff? County officials say no.

  June 8, 2000

• The Men to Call

  Charged with a serious crime? Low on funds? Kent Gipson and Sean O'Brien are the guys to call.

  April 27, 2000

• Remaking a Truant into a Con

  In 1963, a group of African-American runaways and truants was sent to a rural reform school. Then the nightmare began.

  March 23, 2000

• Missouri is about to execute Dennis Skillicorn. The state’s death penalty may not outlive him very long.

  May 14, 2009

• Surprise, surprise: Brownback still sour on Judge Sotomayor

  Breaking non-news in a statement from Sen. Sam Brownback, who met with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor yesterday:I asked for and appreciated my meeting with Judge Sotormayor today. I wanted to hear more from her as I have serious concerns about her philosophy as it relates to an activist judiciary. Unfortunately I did not hear anything in our meeting that allayed those concerns. As Chief Justice Roberts said, a justice should be an impartial umpire, not a player in the game. I am afraid Ju

  June 11, 2009

• U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear case on picketing funerals

  The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it doesn't want anything to do with the legal arguments over whether Missouri can pass state laws to keep vile famewhore psychopaths from picketing soldiers' funerals to get attention. I'm not naming names, but if you live here I think you know who I'm talking about. This is disappointing. You would think that the legal questions of how much pain and suffering someone can cause innocent bystanders versus the freedom-of-speech issue would b

  June 30, 2009

• For those who comment, we salute you ...

  Petite jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg elicited this week's "Comment of the Week" on the Plog. On Tuesday, Peter Rugg reported that the U.S. Supreme Court had declined to take a case about the constitutionality of Missouri laws directed at the troglodytes who preach a hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism at funerals."Shepcat," whom we know to be Brent Shepherd, a proofreader who helps minimize the atrocities of The Pitch's writing staff, considered the photo that appeared with Rugg's entry and w

  July 3, 2009

• It’s a dirty job nabbing horny guys in the park, but somebody’s gotta do it

  July 9, 2009

• What? Sotomayor not really Latina?

  July 23, 2009

• Why did prosecutors drop the murder charge against Birmingham White?

  KCPDBirmingham White Birmingham White, 24, was released from the Jackson County Detention Center July 7, one day after Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar dropped the second-degree murder and armed-criminal-action charges against him. White had been accused of killing a man he called his best friend, 31-year-old Dwight Gill. Gill was found dead on a picnic table in Noble Park near 73rd and Indiana on July 28, 2008, surrounded by 9 mm bullet casings, cigarette butts and two empty containers o

  July 24, 2009

• Kit Bond will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor

  ​We've given Missouri U.S. Sen. Kit Bond a lot of shit (looking at you, Crap Archivist). But gotta give the old guy a tip of the hat for this one: Bond is one of seven Republican senators who will vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.The other six names don't begin with "Sam" and end with "Brownback" or, for that matter, "Pat" and "Roberts."

  August 5, 2009

• The curious case of bean patents

  ​You wouldn't think that one man could corner the market on a widely grown staple -- but then again you're probably not that familiar with U.S. patent law and its impact on the import market. This is a tale of what is termed "biopiracy," using patents to lay claim to items from the developing world. Larry Proctor returned from Mexico in 1994 with a package of multi-colored beans. The beans, similar to a pinto bean, are known as Phaseolus vulgaris, or the Mayocoba bean. He selected a yellow var

  August 20, 2009

• Drive-by history: Holy Name Catholic Church and the MLK riots

  Holy Name Catholic Church at 23rd and Benton Ave.​If Kansas City kicked back on a shrink's couch for psychoanalysis, this church would definitely play a role in its most repressed, battle-scarred memories. That's something I learned Tuesday night at a lecture by Dr. Jacob Wagner, a professor at UMKC who teaches Urban Planning and Design. In front of a diverse sprinkling of folks at the ScionLAB, Wagner discussed Kansas City's tendency to demolish important historical structures. He pressed us

  November 5, 2009