Reporting from Washington – The Supreme Court’s ruling last month giving corporations the right to spend freely on elections reflects a profound shift among the conservative justices on the importance of the 1st Amendment and the nature of corporations. In the 1970s, Justices William H. Rehnquist and Byron R.
Reporting from Washington – In a rare move toward bipartisanship, Senate Democrats prepared Tuesday to unveil an $85-billion jobs bill that would include payroll tax breaks for employers who create new jobs, aid to small businesses and other GOP-backed ideas to attack unemployment. After more than a year of relentlessly partisan conflict in which Republicans complained of being excluded from drafting the healthcare bill and Democrats denounced them as the “party of no,” senior members of both parties were working to blend their ideas on an issue voters seem to care far more about — jobs and job security
There is nothing self-hating liberals love more than to be told they’re elitists who detest and fear the real America. So when Gerard Alexander pitched an essay to the Washington Post explaining why liberals are so condescending, the editors must have been overcome by paroxysms of joy
In an attempt to counter growing speculation that healthcare reform might be dead, President Obama plans to hold a televised bipartisan summit this month with Republicans to hash out their differences on the legislation. While there’s value to challenging his opponents in a public forum, it seems safe to expect that this event will yield zero Republican support.
Recognising that British courts have become a prime destination for “libel tourists”, the House of Lords has recently established a government panel to look into the possibility of amending its laws to make it tougher for foreigners to bring defamation suits in Britain . The UK is notorious for its plaintiff-friendly libel laws which have been accused of being “contemptuous of free speech” and making a “mockery of British justice” and because they silence writers through expensive litigation. But even as Britain attempts to prevent frivolous libel suits, the battle continues in the US.
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