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Same sex marriage is very new…newer than cell phones or the internet.
Supreme Court Justice Alito, according to CBS reporter Jan Crawford
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Money, Transparency and Policy Since Citizens United v. FEC
The Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission U.S. Supreme Court ruling changed modern politics. It made an unmistakeable effect on the ability for secretive and unaccountable groups and organizations to push their interests, as well as opened the floodgates for unlimited spending and helped spur the creation of super PACs. Check out below the milestones of the money and politics landscape since the Court’s ruling in January 2010.
The timeline covers four categories: Courts (major court rulings and cases), Disclose (legislation around greater disclosure of political contributions and spending), Super PACs (trend and news for independent expenditure only committees) and FEC (decisions made by the Federal Election Commission).
Excellent interactive timeline from Sunlight Foundation
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LIVE TONIGHT @ 6pm ET : Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia joins Reuters Editor-In-Chief Stephen Adler for a live interview at Reuters headquarters in New York City
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The fight over Obamacare is about freedom. That’s what we’ve been told since these lawsuits were filed two years ago and that’s what we heard both inside and outside the Supreme Court this morning. That’s what Michele Bachmann* and Rick Santorum have been saying for months. Even people who support President Obama’s signature legislative achievement would agree that this debate is all about freedom—the freedom to never be one medical emergency away from economic ruin. What we have been waiting to hear is how members of the Supreme Court—especially the conservative majority—define that freedom. This morning as the justices pondered whether the individual mandate—that part of the Affordable Care Act that requires most Americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty—is constitutional, we got a window into the freedom some of the justices long for. And it is a dark, dark place.
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Cops look into David Prosser ‘chokehold’ charge
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Prosser, a conservative who narrowly won re-election in April during a campaign widely viewed as a referendum on the governor, put his hands on her neck, the paper reported Sunday night.
Bradley, a liberal justice, told the paper: “The facts are that I was demanding that he get out of my office and he put his hands around my neck in anger in a chokehold.”
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The 14th Amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War to give equal rights to black people, and therefore it said no state can deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of the law and that was intended to prevent the states from taking life, liberty or property away from black people, as they had done for so much of our history. What happened was corporations would come into court, and corporation lawyers are very clever and would say you cannot deprive a person of life, liberty, or property, we are a person, a corporation is a person. The Supreme Court goes along with that. What is particularly grotesque about this was the 14th Amendment was passed to protect newly freed slaves. Between 1890 and 1910 there were 307 cases brought before the court under the 14th Amendment, 288 of these brought by corporations, 19 by African Americans. 600,000 were killed to get rights for people and then with strokes of the pen over the next 30 years, judges applied those rights to capital and property, while stripping them from people.
Richard Grossman
Today’s Supreme Court ruling reminded me of this quote from the documentary “The Corporation” where companies were given the same rights as people.
You can watch “The Corporation” in it’s entirety here.
