© Ed Stein Back in the last mid-term election, in 2006, outside interest groups spent $16 million on campaign ads for political candidates. Not chump change, but it is nothing compared to the $80 million already spent by outside groups in this election, and we still have almost a month to go. Yes, the Supreme […]
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political races, we are indeed seeing a huge upsurge in the amount of money being spent by third parties for the upcoming election. The NY Times has a couple of maps that show where the money is being […]
[reprinted from Deciminyan] Back in December, 2008, Massey Energy, which was responsible for the recent mine disaster in West Virginia, pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the deaths of two miners two years prior. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are the same as people, shouldn’t Massey get the same penalty as […]
Now that the Citizen’s United decision opened up the floodgates so corporate money can be poured into political campaigns, Democrats have been trying to require that political ads disclose their funding sources, but they have been blocked by Republican filibusters. © Joel Pett
© Tom Toles The Republicans are filibustering a bill that would require political ads to disclose who funded them. Democrats need only a single vote to break the filibuster, but not a single Republican will support the bill. This bill is a small thing that would reverse some of the Supreme Court decision (“Citizen’s United“) […]
© Tom Toles I don’t know if you are following the confirmation hearings, but Kagan seems to be doing a good job of slyly pointing out the hypocrisy of her interrogators. When Republican Senator Tom Coburn ask what she would do if Congress pass a law requiring Americans “to eat three vegetables and three fruits […]
© Matt Wuerker Considering that the Boston Tea Party was actually against the East India Tea Company (the then equivalent of a multinational corporation) it is difficult to believe that the founders of this country really intended for corporations to have the same rights as people and for money to be considered protected speech.
A curious thing is happening during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan. Rather than attacking Kagan, Republicans are attacking Thurgood Marshall. Why are they attacking Marshall? After all, the Senate already confirmed Marshall to the Supreme Court in 1967, and he died in 1993. But they brought him up anyway because Kagan worked […]
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision that you have to (unsilently) declare your desire to remain silent in order to exercise that right: © Brian McFadden
The Supreme Court ruled today that in order to exercise your right to remain silent, you have to explicitly tell the police that you are invoking that right. It isn’t good enough to just remain silent. As dissenting justice Sonia Sotomayor put it, this decision turns the famous Miranda rights upside down. “Criminal suspects must […]
© Ben Sargent The idea that Supreme Court justices have to be judges is actually quite new.
In 2005, President Bush nominated his White House lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. Five years later, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Neither has ever been a judge, however there is no question that Kagan has the more impressive credentials. However, some Republicans see it differently. Here are some quotes, from then […]
Once again, the GOP formulated their talking points against the Supreme Court nominee before Obama had even named the nominee. © Drew Sheneman When Elena Kagan was nominated, Republicans attacked her because she has never been a judge. Ironically, Kagan was nominated by then-president Clinton to be a judge on the Court of Appeals, but […]
© Jim Morin My favorite part of this comic is the two-headed justice. With the glasses, that makes for eight eyes. Who says justice is blind? Isn’t it interesting that Justice Stevens is considered to be a liberal, even though he was nominated to the court by a Republican president? UPDATE: The National Journal analyzed […]
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