The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal elections. At first blush, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission appears to Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Washington Independent
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It's not hard to tell how the Independent feels about the case, but that doesn't hurt the quality of the story for me. Good sourcing, background, and plenty of space given to explain Citizens United's argument.
If a majority of the court agrees to reverse those precedents, experts say the court could open federal campaigns to a flood of corporate funding, radically altering ... More »
the article points out how vital this case and the decision made can be to our election process, particularly based upon how it has come about. what isn't mentioned is the early case which determined that corporations have the same rights as individuals which sets up this issue and others..
Fascism involves the conjoining of government and corporations. If justice Roberts has his activist judge way, he will have firmly put the footing ... More »
Thom Hartmann provides the history of Supreme Court "personhood" for corporations; the judges did not decide such personhood in their decision on ... More »
I think this is good journalism in that it presents the facts in a way that is fairly easy to understand without much prior information on the subject. It lays out the facts in a very clear way. There is a lot of context provided that helps make the story feel relevant. If there had just been a bunch of facts crammed into an inverted pyramid style it would be too dense, but instead there is some sense of a narrative, just with the characters and plots revolving on Supreme Court ... More »
The article has been written with a lot of forethought with the intention of trying to be impartial.
It is the citizen who is responsible for the political process. PAC's, groups and corporations are not citizens and have no constitutional rights to ... More »
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