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...time, then, to stop money from entering at a different point in the process. As its name suggests, campaign finance reform is premised on the notion that legislators?? actions are largely influenced by who donates to their reelection committees. This is true, but not the whole story. Another equally troubling entry point for corporate influence is in the lawmaking process itself. Interested parties do not merely participate by donating to campaign committees. They hire lobbyists to argue their case with Congress by session. These lobbyists do not convince just due to force of their arguments. Sometimes, yes, they...
...they promulgate unsavory views in unsavory ways. To do so would be the pinnacle of self-contradiction. According to State Sen. Dean G. Skelos of Long Island, the “rash of incidents clearly demonstrates the need for tough new penalties.” We appreciate the legislators?? wish to stamp out racism wherever it exists, but unfortunately, this bill won’t do that. Skelos has compared the image of the noose to that of a swastika or a burning cross. But his examples prove our point: banning an image doesn’t extinguish...
...been enabled by the progressive surrender of the political, intellectual, and emotional independence of both the conservative base and Congressional Republicans. President George W. Bush may have made the bad decisions, but he has been enabled by what you might call the Hannitizing of the party base and legislators??the nearly conscious willingness to become so indoctrinated that the facts begin to matter less than the party line interpretation of those facts, such that one forsakes the ends for which one initially joined the party in order to support the party as an end in itself...
More troubling is the spectacle of legislators??most non-lawyers—using legalese in monologues unconvincingly replete with phrases like “jurisdiction stripping,” “qui tam” statues, and the massive euphemism for the abortion debate, “stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield...
...point of advocacy groups is to show a broad constituency to legislators??to let them know that it’s not just Harvard University,” says Casey. “Harvard is in a broad-range coalition with hospitals, patient advocacy groups, individual patients, and others that are all united in this promising area of research...