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From the category archives:
The First Amendment does not permit laws that force speakers to retain a campaign finance attorney, conduct demographic marketing research, or seek declaratory rulings before discussing the most salient political issues of our day.
Citizens United v. FEC 558 U. S. — (2010) [PDF]
The Supreme Court’s decision striking many of the regulations of McCain-Feingold has been [...]
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A jury of your peers
The right to trial by jury is so precious in our legal system that there are not one, but two amendments in the Bill of Rights that protect it: The Sixth Amendment for criminal matters, and the Seventh Amendment for civil trials. The flip side of that jury [...]
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How has the legislature screwed Florida homeowners yet again?
In what can only be called a blunder of colossal proportions, the Florida legislature has imposed new fees on Florida foreclosure defendants that make it all but impossible for them to fight back against lenders who commit fraud, ignore federal lending regulations, or commit any other kind [...]
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You’ve got a dirty little mind, don’t you?
As tax time approaches, we watch our government borrow more heavily than ever to soothe the economic chafing caused by, well, borrowing too much money, ultimately increasing the amount of money we’re going to have to send to Uncle Sugar next year at this time, some of you [...]
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A good friend of mine has started blogging about politics. His site? Keep 1600. Only a few posts are up now, but it looks like the bug has bitten him hard.
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NOTE: I’m writing more about this at the Florida Foreclosure Fraud weblog.
Florida’s new Foreclosure Rescue Fraud law
Last week, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed a new law which imposes broad-ranging restrictions on so-called “foreclosure rescue” service providers. The well-intentioned bill is meant to curb the worst abuses by bottom-feeding predators who use foreclosure as [...]
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Nader voters are not necessarily Dem voters
Common wisdom blames Ralph Nader for swinging enough Florida votes to cost Gore the election in 2000. The underlying assumption that Nader drained votes from Gore is just that – an assumption. Nader got voters to the polls who, in all likelihood, wouldn’t have bothered but for [...]
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Florida allows voters to march into select centralized polling places days before the scheduled election and cast their votes. Today, because I won’t be able to vote on the scheduled date next Tuesday, I did just that.
I haven’t spent a lot of time writing about the primary this year, in part because [...]
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As Lewis Black once said:
The only thing worse than a Republican or a Democrat, is when these two pricks work together! Basically how it works in congress is that a Republican stands up and says ‘Hey, I got a really bad idea’, and a Democrat stands up and says ‘And I can make it [...]
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