In 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations are people and money is speech, opening the flood gates for corporations and plutocrats to spend unlimited amounts of outside money to influence elections and threaten politicians. An immediate result was millionaire Art Pope spending millions to engineer the Republican take over […]
Friday, March 29, 2013 From Advance Indiana http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com Indianapolis Islamic School Accused Of Cheating On ISTEP Exam The Indiana Supreme Court this past week held that Indiana’s Choice Scholarship program did not violate the Indiana Constitution’s prohibition on the drawing of funds from the state’s treasury for religious purposes. Under the school voucher program, parents are permitted […]
Michigan Activists Rally to Support BOTH Affirmative Action and 10% Plan in University of Texas Admissions Press Conference Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Noon (or whenever oral arguments end) At Steps of U.S Supreme Court For more Information, contact Kate Stenvig at 313-575-9329 or Donna Stern at 313-468-3398 A contingent from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights […]
The Orange County Register, an online conservative and reactionary rag said of Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, June 21st, on unions and their ability to collect dues that “Workers won important free-speech rights in a decision” (http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/court-360116-union-decision.html). Every time that unions are attacked, lose their ability to collect dues or are restricted this is called a victory […]
The Ghost of Bush: How Dubya’s court can undo democracy By Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice (9/17/09) http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n38/the_ghost_of_bush The key to American politics is that you’ve always got to watch for the action behind the distraction. The distractions right now is the healthcare debate, and the economy, and the war, and the other war, and the […]
by Mary Moore June 20, 2009 The latest dustup re: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and her membership in BELEZIAN GROVE has created quite the dialogue among the cyberspace chattering class. Most of it has centered on whether men and women should have their own private clubs if they are elected or appointed officials. Little, if […]