Day: June 22, 2010

Facebook lobbyist in Sacramento

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 22, 2010
Categories In California
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The LA Times reports that Facebook hired a Sacramento lobbyist. William Gonzalez registered as the Palo Alto company’s first state-level lobbyist last week. He has been hired to lobby the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on privacy and technology issues, state records show. His contract runs through September.

Candidates “getting around the media filter”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 22, 2010
Categories In Maryland

Today The Post examines Robert Ehrlich’s use of campaign-produced video news segments.

The First Amendment and alleged terrorists

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date June 22, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues

The Times doesn’t like the Supreme Court’s opinion in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. Did you see the cite to Citizens United in Breyer’s dissent? The opinion is here. The Post editorializes on the opinion, too.