Today’s oral argument in Speechnow generated a number of interesting reports (and even a few tweets). SCOTUSBlog gives a good overview of the morning’s argument.
Month: January 2010
Baltimore City employees face new gift rules
The Baltimore Sun reports on rules passed, but not final just yet, in the wake of Mayor Dixon’s decision to resign. City officials must now request the permission of the ethics board at least 30 days in advance of a fundraising campaign and must stipulate from whom, when and in what amounts they will seek […]
Corruption issues in North Carolina
How will ethics issues play in elections? That’s what this article about North Carolina politics discusses. “This could be a scenario where you have the megastorm, where you have just a terrible economy, you have unrest and anger with the electorate and then you have (corruption) on top of it,” said Brad Crone, a longtime […]