Supreme Court on corporate rights

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: January 21, 2010 11:58:26 AM EST
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Supreme Court on corporate rights

> The Supreme Court today reversed two major precedents and held that  
> the First Amendment protects the right of corporations to make  
> expenditures in support of candidates in elections.
> http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf   The  
> Court's holding dooms the 1907 Tillman Act, which also prohibits  
> corporate contributions to candidates.
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> Paul Alan Levy
> Public Citizen Litigation Group
> 1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-1000
> http://www.citizen.org/litigation
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> > > > Dave Farber <dave () farber net> 1/21/2010 11:45 AM >>>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
> > Date: January 21, 2010 10:25:59 AM EST
> > To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com
> > >
> > Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> > Subject: Remember back before the Constitution was "Just a piece of
> > paper"?
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> > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:41:15 -0800
> > From: Thad Floryan <thad () DELETED com>
> > To: DELETED () telecom-digest org.
> > Subject: FBI obtains phone records with a Post-it note [Telecom]
> > Message-ID: <4B57B0BB.3090808 () thadlabs com>
> >
> > This from Slashdot today:
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> > The FBI was so cavalier -- and telecom companies so eager to help --
> > that a verbal request or even one written on a Post-it note was
> > enough for operators to hand over customer phone records, according
> > to a damning report (PDF) released on Wednesday by the US Department
> > of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
> >
> > <http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s1001r.pdf> [306 pages, 5.6MB]
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> > --
> > The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be
> > against the privileges of the underprivileged. H. L. Mencken
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