David Broder’s column tomorrow discusses Citizens United and campaign finance reform. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene to canvass ideas for going further in order to limit the newly proclaimed rights of domestic corporations and unions to finance campaign ads from their own treasuries. One option, a Schumer aide told me, might be […]
Category: Courts & Cases
Corporate personhood sturm and drang
This Post editorial tomorrow discusses corporate personhood and Citizens United.
Updates to the John Edwards story
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 […]