Thanks to Citizens United, and other decisions, corporations may now spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our politics to their advantage and the advantage of their owners.
Thanks to the DC Circuit decision yesterday authored by Janice Rogers Brown (appointed by G. W. Bush and approved despite the willingness of Dems to filibuster as a result of the deal brokered by the so-called Gang of 14) a corporation may now assert a conscious privilege in not offering coverage under the Affordable Care Act - including on things as basic as birth control.
And as you will learn in Delaware, Den of Thieves?, a New York Times op ed by John A. Cassara, a former agent for the Treasury Department,
In the years I was assigned to Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or Fincen, I observed many formal requests for assistance having to do with companies associated with Delaware, Nevada or Wyoming. These states have a tawdry image: they have become nearly synonymous with underground financing, tax evasion and other bad deeds facilitated by anonymous shell companies — or by companies lacking information on their “beneficial owners,” the person or entity that actually controls the company, not the (often meaningless) name under which the company is registered.I live in Virginia. We currently are seeing massive advertising in the run-up to our election on Tuesday. As it happens one of the biggest spenders is an organization funded by Michael