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December, 2009
December 15, 2009
December 11, 2009
by Hannah McCrea, Online Communications Director, Constitutional Accountability Center. This piece appeared originally on several other progressive blogs.
Have you ever wondered why corporations like Exxon Mobil have free speech “rights” under the Constitution when corporations can’t “speak,” and when the Constitution was written to protect “We the People” and never mentions “corporations”? Do you worry that maybe, just maybe, the Supreme Court is putting the interests of corporate America over the rights of hard-working Americans?
December 4, 2009
by David H. Gans, Director of the Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Citizenship Program, Constitutional Accountability Center
December 2, 2009
by Elizabeth Wydra, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center
December 1, 2009
This morning (Wed, Dec. 2) at 10am, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (“STBR”) (08-1151), a case asking whether the Florida Supreme Court’s endorsement of a state-led beach restoration project on Florida’s Gulf Coast constituted an unconstitutional “judicial taking” of private beachfront property.