Will the Court that permitted the injection of unlimited corporate expenditures into our election process now prevent one of the best ways to ensure candidates without corporate backing have a fighting chance? We'll soon know. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Huffington Post (Featured)
...the article calls our attention to a challenge to Arizona's public financing law soon to be reviewed by the Supreme Court. It doesn't go into much detail about how this law could conflict with the Citizen's United decision or whether it was restricted to the direct financing of candidates.It does, however, inform us that four states have enacted public financing for elections involving judicial candidates and implies that any Supreme Court action could threaten that legislation or possibly even trim Citizen's United with a landmark decision.
...although the language explaining citizen's united is a bit tedious, the article does a great service in pointing out the importance of shielding state judicial elections from special influences.(does anyone know anything about judicial candidates beyond the propaganda mail-outs proclaiming "pro-family", "anti_crime" sentiments?)
The Grisham novel facts of the Caperton v. Massey case (coal executive spends $3 million to help elect state Supreme Court justice who then casts deciding vote throwing out ... More »
Rabbit Hole Journalism, that's the only way I can describe this article from Doug Kendall. Why? Doug provides a number of links for the diligent or adventurous reader to follow so that they may understand the "Real Issues at Hand," the question remains how many readers will actually take the opportunity to use them? His argument is one-sided and although I personally to find it to represent the side I agree his article lacks the depth and complexity that this issue actually holds. Doug doesn't mention that the case he cites has been combined with another case, "Arizona Free Enterprise Clubs Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett", is it important or relevant for this to be included? That's completely up to the reader to decide. ... More »
The reason I refer to this article as a "journalist rabbit hole" is because the reader needs to be enterprising enough to click on the links provided and spend a couple hours studying this issue. One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that if you take the time and the effort you will be rewarded, informed, and quite possibly depressed. This article itself lacks any real depth and in my opinion quite possibly misleading. However if you are motivated enough to read both of the ... More »
In 1988, Governor Evan Mecham was indicted on multiple criminal charges, including perjury and fraud for allegedly hiding a campaign loan. He was later impeached on charges ... More »
The majority in Citizens United sharply departed from our Constitution’s text and history. Corporations are never mentioned in the Constitution, they cannot vote in ... More »
This article concisely points out the misplaced activism of the Supreme Court, displacing the private citizen with corporate powers.
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