“The Citizens United catastrophe”: Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. will have this op-ed Monday in The Washington Post.
And at The Huffington Post, law professor Geoffrey R. Stone has an essay entitled “Is Money Speech?”
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
“The Citizens United catastrophe”: Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. will have this op-ed Monday in The Washington Post. And at The Huffington Post, law professor Geoffrey R. Stone has an essay entitled “Is Money Speech?” Posted at 9:20 PM by Howard Bashman“UK Supreme Court to take up tweeting”: The Associated Press has this report. You can access that court’s Twitter feed by clicking here. Update: Also available online is the official “Twitter policy for The UK Supreme Court.” Posted at 9:17 PM by Howard Bashman“Obama could alter stance of federal appeals courts”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has an article that begins, “A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation’s appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings.” Posted at 12:55 PM by Howard Bashman“Politics and the Supreme Court”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains this editorial. Posted at 9:33 AM by Howard Bashman“Upper Macungie woman’s map made the redistricting difference; Amanda Holt’s work on map of state voting districts pivotal in court’s decision”: This article appeared yesterday in The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania. And today in The Harrisburg Patriot-News, Heather Long has an essay entitled “Convincing a court to rethink redistricting” that begins, “Amanda Holt is Pennsylvania’s Erin Brockovich, albeit with a more conservative wardrobe and less swearing. The 29-year-old from Allentown almost single-handedly convinced the state Supreme Court to do what it has never done before: Reject the redistricting maps.” Posted at 9:30 AM by Howard Bashman“Scalia: Routine criminal cases clog federal courts.” The Associated Press has this report. And at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog, Debra Cassens Weiss has a post titled “Scalia Denies Abortion Views Influenced by Religion, Calls His GPS Opinion ‘Defendant Friendly.’” Posted at 9:25 AM by Howard Bashman“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Pushing Kagan out of the healthcare case.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report. Posted at 9:22 AM by Howard Bashman |
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