Month: January 2010

Corporate personhood sturm and drang

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 30, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

This Post editorial tomorrow discusses corporate personhood and Citizens United.

Updates to the John Edwards story

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 30, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases, IRS

The Hill reports on Andrew Young’s 20/20 apperance here. Also mentioned in the ABC broadcast were the hundreds of thousands of dollars in checks allegedly written by longtime Edwards backer Bunny Mellon, the Upperville, Va.-based widow of philanthropist Paul Mellon. Young said the checks were sometimes delivered inside boxes of chocolates. Young attests that it […]

Citizens United and judicial elections

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 30, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

This Times editorial argues that Citizens United makes reforming judicial election funding more important. Since retiring, Justice O’Connor has been warning about the threat to judicial independence from big-money state judicial campaigns and attack ads paid for by special interests hoping to influence future court decisions. The Citizens United ruling promises to make that problem […]