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Oath of Office

January 22nd, 2010 | 5 Comments

In a sweeping decision that overturned more than a century of precedent, a bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled yesterday that corporations and unions were no longer subject to campaign spending limits, giving them the go-ahead to spend unlimited amounts of money supporting candidates of their choice. Abandoning all pretense of judicial modesty and restraint, the [...]