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Tag Archives: Supreme Court
Boston Firms Rally For Same-Sex Marriage
In the run-up to this week’s Supreme Court bakeoff on gay marriage (which includes a call to strike down both California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act), a group called the Respect for Marriage Coalition has launched an advertising … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Boston Medical Center, Boston Scientific Corporation, California, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, Liberty Mutual Group, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Proposition 8, Respect for Marriage Coalition, same-sex marriage, State Street Corporation, Supreme Court
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Call It Obama’s “Wealthcare” Reform Act
Sign o’ the (New York) Times: Distaste for Health Care Law Reflects Spending on Ads Nut graf: In all, about $235 million has been spent on ads attacking the law since its passage in March 2010, according to a recent … Continue reading
Why Did The GOP Lie When The Truth Was Apparently Worse?
The other day the hardworking staff noted that the Republican National Committee had, according to Bloomberg News, “altered the audio of U.S. Supreme Court (1000L) oral arguments in an attack on President Barack Obama’s health-care law.” In a web ad circulated this week, the … Continue reading
The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Cover (II)
Because the hardworking staff is a noodnik, we failed to note in a previous post about the Weekly Standard’s leasing its March 26 cover to the National Federation of Independent Business, that the NFIB is lead plaintiff in the lawsuit (National … Continue reading
WSJ Tracks Super PACs
As the hardworking staff has relentlessly chronicled, Super PACs are driving the GOP presidential primary in a way no one (Paging the Supreme Court . . . paging the totally clueless Supreme Court) could have imagined. But at least someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens United, Super PACs, Supreme Court, TechPresident, Wall Street Journal
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (FEC Go To Hell Edition)
Bad news on the political advertising front from Thursday’s News York Times: Democratic Senator’s Ads May Break New Ground WASHINGTON — A new series of political advertisements on behalf of an embattled Nebraska senator could open the door to a … Continue reading
The Atlantic Outs Elena Kagan As Heterosexual
From Sex and the Married Politician in The Atlantic’s October edition: Last year, when Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was falsely suspected of being gay, some journalists called for her to reveal more about her sex life, arguing that her … Continue reading
High (Court) On Drugs
The Supreme Court has endorsed the data-mining of physicians’ prescribing records for use in marketing pharmaceuticals. From MedPageToday: WASHINGTON — Data on which doctors are prescribing which drugs is speech that is protected by the First Amendment, and pharmaceutical companies have … Continue reading
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Tagged data mining, First Amendment, prescription drugs, Sorrell v. IMS Health, Supreme Court, Vermont
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