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Heard something about Supreme Court nominee Solicitor General Elena Kagan from Jon Stewart (he was in line for the same bathroom that I was waiting for) that I had to fact check. Media Research Center confirmed it for me when they quoted ABC News:
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Elections have consequences. Republicans have held the presidency for 28 years out of the last 41, over twice the time the Democrats have presided over the executive branch, and have used this power to shift the balance of the nation’s highest courts severely to the right in order to further their political goals FreakOutNation » [...]
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The President’s pubic rebuke of a Supreme Court decision was a rare moment, but should indicate the egregiousness of the court’s action: The core of the Citizens United decision said corporations have a First Amendment right to make independent expenditures in candidate elections. Only a constitutional amendment, which is exceedingly unlikely, could undo that core [...]
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision about corporate freedom of speech should be curdling your blood. Some even think free market capitalism champion Milton Friedman is rolling over in his grave because of it. Here’s what Harvard Business Review editorial director Justin Fox says about it: His point was that CEOs shouldn’t go around imposing their [...]
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Alan Dershowitz writes a scathing article about the recent dissenting opinions of Justices Scalia and Thomas on a Death Row case: Surely it is among the worst sins, under Catholic teaching, to kill an innocent human being intentionally. Yet that is precisely what Scalia would authorize under his skewed view of the United States Constitution [...]
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