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The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …
Court allows challenge of U.S. surveillance law By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post, 21 September 2011 A group of plaintiffs hoping to mount a challenge to U.S. surveillance law secured a major victory Wednesday when a federal appeals court upheld their standing to sue the government. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ 6-6 decision allows a …
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Supreme Court Says Warrants, States’ Rights Unnecessary Thomas R. Eddlem, 18 May 2011 NewAmerican States cannot grant their citizens wider freedoms from search and seizure than federal courts do, and police may manipulate events that allow them to avoid getting Fourth Amendment search warrants from judges for home searches, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled May …
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An Astroturfed Zombie Army The Future of American Democracy? By Werther* ElectronicPolitics, January 2, 2011 EXTRACT: With the Citizens United Supreme Court decision (certainly one of the ten most consequential rulings in the court’s history), all pretense of restraint is gone. The reader can see just how unrestrained in the January 1 edition of the …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Drew Courtney or Miranda Blue, 202-467-4999 / media@pfaw.org <mailto:media@pfaw.org> Jeff Clements, General Counsel, Free Speech for People, 617-281-5350 <mailto:617-281-5350%20jclements@clementsllc.com> / jclements@clementsllc.com October 4, 2010 Bipartisan Group of Former Attorneys General and Law Professors Call on Congress to Examine Constitutional Amendment To Reverse Citizens United As the Supreme Court returns today for …
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The Cash Cow of Anonymity Posted on Oct 4, 2010 By Eugene Robinson The Republican grab for Congress is being funded by a pack of wolves masquerading as a herd of sheep. How sweet and innocent they seem, these mysterious organizations with names like Americans for Job Security. Who could argue with that? Who wants job insecurity? …
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Smackdown of Obama by Supreme Court may be inevitable According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained …
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