9 hours ago by marcjan

Robert Bauer, a Washington, D. C. political power lawyer who recently became White House Counsel, is likely to emerge as the most important in-house counselor to President Barack Obama and his reelection campaign committee as they begin to gird themselves against what could be a torrent of negative ...

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6 days ago by Molly Schoemann

JEFF MORROW, INC.: Finally, I belong. MOLLY SCHOEMANN: I don’t understand why everyone is so concerned about the fact that corporations are now free to donate massive sums of money to promote the political candidates of their choosing.

The Perpetual Post - perpetualpost.com · Rank: 24,699 · 27 references

6 days ago by marcjan

After considering Ted Olsen’s comments in The Wall Street Journal about the impact of the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, it is clear that the free speech rights of small business and their entrepreneurs were as much intended targets of the decision as those of maj ...

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7 days ago by Ilya Shapiro

The blogosphere has been abuzz on the heels of the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision. Hysteric criticisms of the speculative changes to our political landscape aside — including the President’s misstatements in the State of the Union — one of the most common and oft-repeated criticis ...

Dispatches from Purple America - dispatchesfrompurpleamerica.blogspot.com · 3 references

12 days ago by grantman

The Supreme Court decision to resurrect the voting rights of corporate America from the tomb and to dictate to free standing voters of this country to move over; that non living entities are voters too, should not have come as a surprise to anyone. While tea party candidates and bus loads of people ...

The time pieces - grantman.wordpress.com · 3 references

18 days ago by jonnyfrag

There was a Supreme Court ruling this week and corporations have had their personal rights upheld as human beings. I can’t really say anything better than Keith Olberman already said on his show the other day. Sometimes Keith is overly dramatic on less important things, and sometimes he is flat out ...

Blog of Freedom - jonnyfrag.wordpress.com · 3 references

140 days ago by lnxwalt

Editorial – The Rights of Corporations – NYTimes.com N3TM0uSe The question at the heart of one of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year is simple: What constitutional rights should corporations have? To us, as well as many legal scholars, former justices and, indeed, drafters of the Constitution ...

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159 days ago by Marina

NPR ran not one but two recent pieces about a pending Supreme Court case. It’s about Hillary: The Movie, which is a politically motivated defamation of the nation’s first female candidate which would have aired the night before the Democratic primary on Pay-Per-View TV. Because the group that made t ...

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252 days ago by admin

Printer-friendly version Send to friend PDF version by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon What is and what should be the story around the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court? Is the main story a celebration of how humble origins and hard work won out? Should we spend all our time a ...

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252 days ago by Bruce A. Dixon

Printer-friendly version Send to friend PDF version by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Like the campaign of Barack Obama, some would turn the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court into another occasion for nonstop celebration of the American story in which humble orgins and hard w ...

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