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March 2, 2011 7:07 pm | By Paul Gordon
Supreme Court Recusal Bill Introduced
For several weeks now, more and more people have been paying attention to the general absence of enforceable standards for the recusal of Supreme Court Justices from cases in which their impartiality is in question. Rep. Chris Murphy (CT) has…
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March 2, 2011 6:21 pm | By Miranda Blue
Wisconsin State Senator Calls Protestors “Slobs,” “College Students Having a Fun Party”
This is probably news to the tens of thousands of Wisconsinites who have been rallying for worker’s rights in the state capital for weeks, but according to Republican State Sen. Glenn Grothman, they are a bunch of “college students having…
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March 2, 2011 4:57 pm | By Paul Gordon
Still More Bipartisan Support for Goodwin Liu
Richard Painter, once the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, has a comprehensive, well-researched piece in the Huffington Post whose title says it all: "Qualified, Measured, and Mainstream: Why the Senate Should Confirm Goodwin Liu." Now…
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March 1, 2011 11:22 pm | By Marge Baker
The Debate We’re Not Having About Budget Deficits
Today’s New York Times reported on the latest Times/CBS poll showing majority opposition to weakening public employee unions bargaining rights by a nearly 2-1 margin (60 percent to 33 percent). In the context of the battle in Wisconsin over Governor…
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March 1, 2011 11:03 pm | By Brian
As Unions Are Demonized, Corporate Power Continues To Be Left Unchecked
On The Morning Joe, Richard Haass offered his proposal to resolve the conflicts in states like Wisconsin and Ohio, where Republican governors are attempting to dismantle organized labor by stripping workers’ rights to bargain collectively for the purported reason of…
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March 1, 2011 10:28 pm | By Paul Gordon
Chamber Fails to Poke a Hole in Nation’s Anti-Discrimination Laws
The Supreme Court issued its decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital today, addressing whether an employer may be held liable for employment discrimination based on the discriminatory animus of an employee who influenced, but who did not make, the ultimate…
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March 1, 2011 8:22 pm | By Paul Gordon
Corporate Personhood Debunked (This Time)
It's not often these days when you can't get even one of the conservative Justices on the Supreme Court to ignore precedent, twist the facts, ignore logic, or do whatever else it takes to help Big Business consolidate the already…
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March 1, 2011 5:28 pm | By Brian
Corporate-Funded American Crossroads Prepares for Massive Spending in 2012
The twin groups founded by GOP heavyweights Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie are readying to spend $120 million to influence the 2012 elections. As reported in Citizens Blindsided, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS were handsomely funded by Wall Street and…
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March 1, 2011 4:35 pm | By Miranda Blue
The Story of Citizens United
The Story of Stuff Project has made a new video telling the story of Citizens United v. FEC. Take a look: For more information on the influence that corporate spending had in the 2010 elections, read PFAW's report, Citizens Blindsided.
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March 1, 2011 3:32 pm | By Deborah Liu
Updates from the Front Lines of Wisconsin
Below you will see live Facebook updates from State Rep. Kelda Roys of Wisconsin, a member of People For the American Way Foundation's Young Elected Officials Network. She has been repeatedly denied entry to the state Capitol as a result…
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February 28, 2011 10:25 pm | By Miranda Blue
“Hide/Seek” and the Future of Fighting Censorship
Watching "A Fire in My Belly" The National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek” exhibit closed last month, but the debate surrounding it is far from over. On Feb. 17, People For’s president, Michael Keegan joined People For board member Ron Feldman and…
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February 28, 2011 3:40 pm | By admin
Report from Madison: Standing Up (in the Snow) for Wisconsin’s Workers
By Dave KreismanOver the last 13 days, neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor cold has been able to stop the tens of thousands of public employees, their families and allies in Wisconsin’s fight to protect the rights of the…
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February 25, 2011 8:08 pm | By Miranda Blue
Wisconsin after Citizens United
In the Huffington Post today, People For President Michael Keegan looks at what happens after corporations get unlimited influence in elections. In Wisconsin, big corporate funders not only have elected officials willing to unpopular and anti-populist policies, but also have…
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February 25, 2011 7:15 pm | By Miranda Blue
Stoking Fear with Silence: Broun Apologizes, but When Will Republican Officials Stop Condoning Lies?
Last Friday, Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia was at a town hall meeting when a constituent asked him, “Who will shoot Obama?” Rather than confronting the call to violence, Broun—who has his own history of incendiary remarks— laughed it off,…
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February 24, 2011 6:14 pm | By Miranda Blue
Madison Police Chief: Walker’s Remarks on Protesters are “Unsettling and Troubling”
Madison, Wisconsin’s police chief isn’t so happy about Gov. Scott Walker’s joking around with a caller who he thought was billionaire Republican donor David Koch. In his conversation with a reporter pretending to be Koch, Walker said that he had…
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February 23, 2011 8:42 pm | By Ben Betz
Fox News: A Mirror Image of the Truth (Or, Reason #965,822 why Americans should not trust Fox News)
I just read Jed Lewison’s post on Daily Kos, “Fox flips poll results to falsely claim Americans support union-busting,” and my reaction is hardly one of shock. Fox News’ graphics department consistently and persistently makes “mistakes” that show incorrect poll…
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February 23, 2011 8:26 pm | By Paul Gordon
President Obama Calls DOMA Unconstitutional
Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Department of Justice will no longer defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in court because it is unconstitutional. This is the provision prohibiting federal recognition of the marriages of…
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February 23, 2011 5:31 pm | By Brian
Scott Walker’s Revealing Chat with ‘David Koch’
When a reporter from the Buffalo Beast called Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and pretended to be billionaire industrialist and GOP bankroller David Koch, he spoke to the inaccessible governor for 20 minutes about his plans to wipe out public employee’s…
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February 23, 2011 4:33 pm | By Brian
GOP’s Corporate Backers Intent on Busting Unions, Not Solving Budget Problems
In both Wisconsin and Ohio, Republican governors are attempting to rush through legislation that would devastate workers’ rights that would in reality do little to help close their states’ budget shortfalls. Behind their proposals to strip public employees of their…
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February 23, 2011 4:10 pm | By Paul Gordon
A Third Judge Upholds the Healthcare Law
Another federal district judge has found the healthcare reform law constitutional. Judge Gladys Kessler in the District of Columbia becomes the third federal judge to uphold the law. As the New York Times reports: The judge suggested in her 64-page…