Addicting Info: Tea Party Patriots: Stupid, Or Corrupt?
-By Don Hamel May 22, 2012- The Tea Party came into this world the same way a baby does; screaming and crying. Mainly they screamed and cried about the deficit,…
Think Progress: EXCLUSIVE: Florida Congressman Demands Gov. Rick Scott ‘Immediately Suspend’ Voter Purge
-By Judd Legum and Ian Millhiser May 23, 2012- Florida Congressman Ted Deutch (D) told ThinkProgress today that Gov. Rick Scott was engaging in a “blatant attempt to supress voter…
Tampa Bay Times: Of 7,000 felons purged from voting rolls, many are Democrats, blacks
-By Steve Bousquet and Carolyn Edds May 23, 2012- TALLAHASSEE — As Florida scours its voter rolls in search of non-U.S. citizens, another form of purging continues: stripping felons of…
Republic Report: Corporate Lobbying Group Asks SCOTUS Not To Use “Empirical Evidence” Of Corruption When Reconsidering Cit.Utd.
-By Lee Fang May 22, 2012- Late last year, the Montana high court, citing the state’s long history of corporate money corrupting politics, defied the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United…
Huffington Post: Steve Bullock, Montana Attorney General, Takes A Stand In Citizens United Sequel
-By Mike Sacks May 22, 2012- WASHINGTON -- Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock says that he has been so personally involved in the Citizens United sequel soon to be considered…
The New Yorker: Money Unlimited
How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision -by Jeffrey Toobin May 21, 2012- When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court,…
Roll Call: Senators Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Law Banning Corporate Donations
-By Eliza Newlin Carney May 18, 2012- A stream of amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on a closely watched political spending case turned to a flood by the end…
Truthout: Uncovering the Other ALECs
-By Sarah Blaskey and Steve Horn May 16, 2012- Taxpayer-subsidized stealth lobbyists: Lobbyists who circumvent normal lobbying regulations and procedures to advance the corporate agenda in statehouses nationwide on the…
Bloomberg: Scalia Turns Advocate Against Obama as Queries Criticized
-By Greg Stohr May 15, 2012- In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of “high-handedness.” He was just getting warmed up. Over the next…