Monday, February 14th, 2011
When corporate executives needed a political favor, they used to run to Congress. Now they can also run to the courthouse. Over the years, corporate chieftains and their political henchmen have steadily ensconced reliable laissez-faire ideologues in hundreds of federal judgeships, quietly creating a corporate-friendly path for moving their litigation all the way from the district level through the Supreme Court. For example, in its effort to scuttle President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform, the right wing has gone court shopping. read more
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Our Corporate Courts
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Republicans in the US Senate fail to win enough votes to repeal President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform bill, passed in 2010.
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Bid to repeal US health law fails
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
A federal judge in Florida declares the US healthcare reform bill passed in 2010 unconstitutional, in a suit brought by 26 states.
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Judge strikes down US health law
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