Month: September 2009

Disclosure and Dr. Tara O’Toole

The Washington Times alleges that Homeland Security nominee Dr. Tara O’Toole did not include information about a prior position on recent disclosure forms. President Obama’s nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government […]

Dionne on Citizens United

The Post’s E.J. Dionne discusses Citizens United in this editorial today. The full impact of what the court could do in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has only begun to receive the attention it deserves. Even the word “radical” does not capture the extent to which the justices could turn our political system upside […]