Top Headline Comments 3-8-13

Happy Friday.

Sens. Paul and McCain inadvertently shared an unplanned, post-rebuke elevator ride yesterday. Awkward.

Prisoner who was put in solitary confinement for two years after being arrested for a DWI wins $15.5 million lawsuit. A nightmare story.

In part to deal with unemployed law grads, law schools are opening firms of their own.

Phyllis Schlafly is not happy about recent Republican support for gay marriage: "'We expect all Republican officials to uphold the Platform,' she wrote in a letter to RNC Chairman Reince Preibus. 'The endorsement of same-sex marriage is not acceptable.' . . . She also confirmed that she received a 'very courteous' reply to her letter from Preibus, but that the chairman did not commit one way or the other."

At the moment, there are only three Illinois Republicans who were elected in state-wide races: Sen. Mark Kirk, Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka, and State Treasurer Dan Rutherford. Kirk and Topinka are in favor of retaining Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady in the face of a social conservative push to oust him tomorrow for supporting gay marriage. Rutherford has been mum on the Brady question, but, notably, Rutherford was the only GOP vote for civil unions back when he was a state senator. Ousting Brady for holding the same position on marriage as the last GOP vice president is unlikely to make it easier for Republicans to get elected in Illinois.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:50 AM

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