Day: July 5, 2009

John and Monica Conyers

The Post reports on Monica Conyers’ guilty plea here. In the snow-covered parking lot of a McDonald’s in Detroit two years ago, City Council member Monica Conyers met with a waste-management consultant who slipped her an envelope stuffed with as much as $3,000 in cash. The under-the-table payment, made shortly after she cast the swing […]

The Times on Austin

This Times editorial, imploring the Supreme Court against overruling Austin, begins: With a little-noticed order last week, we fear the Supreme Court has set the stage for dismantling the longstanding ban on corporate spending in elections for president and Congress. If those restrictions are overturned, it would be a disaster for democracy.