Day: January 14, 2010

Citizens United, Prop. 8., and “quashing public discourse”

The Times discusses the Supreme Court’s move against televising the Prop. 8 trial in an editorial today. The courtroom battle now unfolding bears close watching, and the Supreme Court should not stand in the way of Americans viewing it and reaching educated judgments. Rick Hasen notes here that the order cites appellant’s brief and the […]

Competing ethics plans in New York

Gov. Paterson’s reaction to an alternative to his ethics plan is the topic of this article today. Gov. David A. Paterson, who last week offered a far more ambitious ethics proposal, denounced the plan, through a spokesman, as nothing more than “election-year window dressing,” and he signaled that he would veto the proposal its current […]