U.S. PIRG’s Lisa Gilbert discusses key arguments in Citizens United in this guest blogger post at The Wonk Room. In the battle between small donors and big spenders, a decision in the Citizens United case to turn back the clock and increase the power of corporations would be the wrong one. Million of voters were encouraged by […]
Month: August 2009
David Axelrod’s Email Spamgate
The controversy over David Axelrod’s healthcare reform email gets full Gawker treatment here. The story reports that dozens of people received the email who had never signed up for anything and that “email came from servers owned by GovDelivery.”
Argument Over Argument in Citizens United?
SCOTUSBlog reports on Sen. Mitch McConnell’s motion to share argument time (for his lawyer) in Citizens United on September 9. From my review of the docket I noted the motion (and opposition) in this post.