Supreme Court

Kagan in Context: Shafting Progressive Values

Norman Solomon
May 10, 2010

If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens—and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because it’s part of a pattern.

The White House is in the grip of conventional centrist wisdom. Grim results stretch from Afghanistan to the Gulf of Mexico to communities across the USA.

“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills,” President Obama said in support of offshore oil drilling, less than three weeks before the April 20 blowout in the Gulf. “They are technologically very advanced.”

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January 27, 2010

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Rep Edwards Introduces Amendment to Undo Corporate "Free Speech"

RNs Urge Congress to Overturn Court Ruling-"Disastrous Decision for American Workers, Democracy"

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Union
January 25, 2010

Published by CNA/NNU.

The nation’s largest nurses union [on Friday] urged Congress to act quickly to reverse the Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in political campaigns, calling it a “disastrous ruling for American workers and American democracy.”

“The healthcare debate of the last year has provided a sobering reminder of the already pervasive influence of giant pharmaceutical and insurance corporations. The last thing our democracy and political system needs is even more spending and political sway by the wealthiest interests in this country,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the 150,000-member organization formed late last year through the unification of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and Massachusetts Nurses Association.

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Public Interest Groups Condemn Supreme Court's Ruling on Corporate Money in Elections: Call for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Court Decision

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“Free Speech Rights Are For People, Not Corporations”

A coalition of public interest organizations strongly condemned today’s ruling by the US Supreme Court allowing unlimited corporate money in US elections and announced that it is launching a campaign to amend the United States Constitution to overturn the ruling. The groups, Voter Action, Public Citizen, the Center for Corporate Policy, and the American Independent Business Alliance, say the Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC poses a serious and direct threat to democracy. They aim, through their constitutional amendment campaign, to correct the judiciary’s creation of corporate rights under the First Amendment over the past three decades. Immediately following the Court’s ruling, the groups unveiled a new website – http://www.freespeechforpeople.org – devoted to this campaign.

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People=Corporations? Not.

Steve Cobble
January 21, 2010

Published by The Huffington Post.

We all know that people are not the same as corporations.

The Roberts Court does not. It’s a bad day for democracy.

Go to www.freespeechforpeople.org if you want to fight back. There’s a short video to share, featuring Congresswoman Donna Edwards and Law Professor Jamin Raskin, and there’s more information on what this ruling means to real people.

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