Articles Posted in the Politics Category
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US Supreme Court Confuses Corporations
with Actual PeopleThe Court went on at great length about the risks of preventing corporations from speaking in political campaigns and how their inability to speak purported to damage our political process. Because it believes that any regulation would be too complicated to enforce, the Court threw out all regulations on speech by corporations.
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Fixing A Bad Supreme Court Decision
By Joel S. Hirschhorn, guest editorial January 27, 2010 Sensible, intelligent Americans are furious over the recent Supreme Court 5-to-4-decision referred to as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that struck down limits on corporate…
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Stay Tuned: Ce n’est pas ma faute!
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd. Photo by Luke Thomas By Hope Johnson January 26, 2010 District 7 Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is mad as hell that a city charter amendment he urged voters pass in 2007 is not…
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The Downside of a Constitutional Convention
By Ralph E. Stone January 26, 2010 As we all have no doubt read or heard, the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission invalidated the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (2 U.S.C. §441b), ruling,…
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Corporations are People Too
In all the noise over healthcare reform and the election in Massachusetts, you might not have noticed that democracy took a gut punch last Thursday, as the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns, candidates, and parties. They can do this directly from their own general fund, without the permission of their shareholders.
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Why Scott Brown Won in Massachusetts
Yet the talking heads on the network and cable news, and the op-ed pieces in so many papers across the country haven’t yet grasped this simple truth that the American public intuitively understands. We are joyfully refusing to let any spin unravel this most refreshing example of the people reining in this out-of-control healthcare overhaul.
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Striking Images, Stories
in Public Defender’s Annual CalendarCover illustration of the 2010 San Francisco Public Defender’s annual calendar, available for free! From the Office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi January 21, 2010 An attorney argues vehemently before a jury during…
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