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Obama road tests hopey changey 2.0

…eliminate the CEO and top brass “know nothing” excuse. And the language for civil and criminal charges is parallel, so a prosecutor could file civil charges, and if successful, could…

Does the Tea Party Dislike Goodwin Liu?

civil libertarian in most respects, not just the respects that rightwing ideology dictates, and certainly not just in the respects that Reagan-era rightwing ideology dictates. And although Washington has yet…

Cute procedural tautology of Roberts Court

…in fact obligatory that trial-level federal judges dismiss civil lawsuits, willy-nilly, if the judge declares that the formal complaint (the document filed with the court that initiates the lawsuit) lacks…

Paul Clement, In Appreciation

…awarded a larger-than-normal attorney’s fee under a federal statute that provides for the award of attorneys’ fees in successful civil rights lawsuits such as that one. The Court effectively ruled…

What about me!

…food. Cut’s in education, medical, civil services, infrastructure failure. Privatization may have reduced some costs, deregulation may have decreased some costs (the supposed Walmart benefit), but all of it shifted…

New Deal –Objective Research?

…unemployment by launching the Civil Works Administration, the Public Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, which created jobs for millions of the unemployed. He passed the Social Security Act,…