The Roberts Court continues to take up cases which risk the foundations of this country. If the Chief Justice has any love, if not for this country, than for his own party, he must end this madness.
The Republican National Committee is betting on the U.S. Supreme Court to recoup the losses seen in the 2012 election cycle.
‘The fact is, corporations are not people. Corporations don’t breathe. They don’t have kids. And they don’t die in wars.’
A court case in Montana reveals the use of dark money groups to launder money in order to bypass finance laws, illegally, to several groups, including to Ron Paul.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson may not love Mitt Romney, but he loves the $2 billion tax break he stands to get with a Republican in the White House.
George Will, who ordinarily can’t find a Republican he doesn’t love, completely thrashed Trump when he called him a ‘bloating ignoramus.’
This week, the NPR show This American Life aired a piece about money in politics. They talked at length about how Congressmen raise the money they need, the way fundraising works, the relationship between lobbyists and politicians, and how the Citizens United decision affected the political landscape.
The party system grew from custom, not from something that the Constitution handed to us. It hasn’t served us well.
The Los Angeles city council is preparing to vote on a resolution that would revoke corporate personhood. If the council votes accordingly, Los Angeles would become the biggest city in America to strike a blow against Citizens United.
Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and should be able to spend an unlimited amount of money to influence election, but if Unions do it it’s ‘a form of corruption.’
In the state of Michigan, Justices serve eight-year terms and do not officially run as Republicans or Democrats. However, they are nominated by the political parties. Mary Beth Kelly was picked by Republicans and elected to Michigan’s Supreme Court this past year. While State Supreme Court races aren’t usually well covered (except in Wisconsin earlier this year), they can really affect a lot of people.
3 Federal Judges upheld the ban on foreign donations to campaigns on Monday. This decision is likely to be appealed and go to the Supreme Court. The ban is being challenged by Asenath Steiman, who is a citizen of both Israel and Canada. Steiman has made it clear that he wants to contribute to the eventual Republican nominee for President and Senator Tom Coburn.
Perhaps you have noticed ads from a group called the American Natural Gas Alliance. The message of these ads is simple: we have tons of natural gas under us and we should use it instead of foreign oil.
In the first 6 months of 2011, Super-PACs have raised 26 million dollars. Super-PACs are political action committees with slightly different rules, the most well-known being that Super-PACs can take in unlimited corporate or union donations anonymously. However, unlike traditional PACs, candidates cannot be directly connected to them.
Last quarter, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney raised 18 million dollars for his campaign. Romney took in more than half a million dollars from registered lobbyists. One of Mitt Romney’s biggest fundraisers has been lobbying for a foreclosure firm while foreclosure fraud is still going on at an alarming rate.
On Thursday, Senator Reid announced that he and Republicans had come to a deal to fund the FAA. A deal came, but it was 13 days after the shutdown, costing the government 30 million a day. The deal that passed included ending subsidies for small airports. This can be waived by the Transportation Secretary, so it might as well be a clean extension, a rare win for the workers.
