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Is SCOTUS Poised to Allow Unlimited Corporate Campaign Spending?
That’s what Rick Hasen, the uber-election lawyer and blogger is predicting.
Instead of ruling on Citizens United v. FEC, a case that questions the legitimacy of corporate funding that supported an anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton documentary released just before the 2008 primaries, the court on Monday ordered reargument of the case in September. The court will then [...]
Is Sotomayor Just a Bone Tossed to Hispanics?
If you thought President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor was a good sign for Latinos, think again — the latest buzz is that Obama picked Sotomayor as a consolation prize for all his Hispanic supporters clamoring for comprehensive immigration reform, which so far he’s not doing much about.
So writes Mickey Kaus at Slate citing MSNBC, [...]
Leave Liz Cheney Alone!
This is a Slate piece about Liz Cheney — daughter of Dick and a former State Department official — and what her senior undergraduate thesis on executive power from Colorado College tells us about the Bush presidency. As far as I can tell, it is entirely sincere. This is not an Alan Sokal/Social Text-style hoax [...]
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