Day: March 8, 2010

Shareholders, Citizens United, and a video contest

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 8, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues

U.S. PIRG’s Lisa Gilbert discusses The Shareholder Protection Act and a new video contest in this Huffington Post post.

Politics and governing, White House style

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 8, 2010
Categories In Executive Branch

The Times Magazine features this story on White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. It begins describing a White House meeting of a dozen or so officials, including White House Political Director Patrick Gaspard, strategizing about the then-upcoming Massachusetts Senate election.

Dionne presses on Schumer-Van Hollen

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 8, 2010
Categories In FEC

E.J. Dionne Jr. discusses Citizens United and Schumer-Van Hollen in his column this morning. Liberals and Democrats are already mobilizing to fight against Citizens United because they fear the impact of unconstrained corporate activity on elections and legislation. But conservatives and Republicans should also be alarmed that this decision could encourage politicians to extort campaign […]