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The Super Bowl of Bad Decisions
Quote of the day: ”It’s the Super Bowl of bad decisions,” said Common Cause president Bob Edgar, a former congressman from Pennsylvania. The bad decision: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns. By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states. It leaves in place a … More >>
Crusading New Yorkers
Some cheery news from beyond New York State borders! The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that state attorney generals have the right to investigate nationally-chartered banks for violating consumer protection laws. NY AG Andrew Cuomo wanted to see if national banks were engaging in discriminatory practices by funnelling minorities into dangerous sub-prime loans. Fannie Mae estimates that more than half of sub-prime borrowers qualified for prime loans; many were minorities suffering under redlining practices. The map…shows the distribution of foreclosures in New York City; foreclosures are most dense where minorities are concentrated, in large part because of these practices. But when Cuomo tried to look into the problems, the banks told him that their national regulator preempted any state … More >>
No More Old White Men, Please
A conservative who may be involved in the nomination process wrote of possible Supreme Court Justice Candidate Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Judge Sotomayor’s personal views may cloud her jurisprudence. As Judge Sotomayor explained in a 2002 speech at Berkeley, she believes it is appropriate for a judge to consider their “experiences as women and people of color” in their decision making, which she believes should “affect our decisions.” Really? Life experience NOT culminating in becoming an old white man has the potential to cloud the judicial judgment? For those who haven’t read about this incredible woman, she’s a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court located here in New York. If appointed, Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and only the third … More >>
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