The GOP war on campaign finance reforms
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Not satisfied by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC that opened the floodgates to corporate-sponsored election ads, conservative opponents of campaign finance regulations have opened up a series of new legal fronts in their effort to eliminate the remaining laws restricting the flow of money into politics. To … Read more
The GOP war on the independent judiciary (and separation of powers)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The "Birthers, Birchers and Secessionist" wing of the Republican Party in Arizona has long opposed the wisdom of the voters in approving the merit selection system for judges in Arizona. Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was one of the architects of the merit selection system for judges when she … Read more
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander: End federal funding of FOX News
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Mark at News Corpse blog gets it exactly right Stop Federal Funding Of Fox News: A few weeks ago video pimp and propagandist, James O’Keefe, released a heavily edited and deliberately deceptive video that purported to expose an institutional bias at National Public Radio. It was quickly debunked and denounced as a fraud … Read more
Russell Pearce: “You’re not a citizen of the United States”
by David Safier You might think Russell Pearce is talking to undocumented immigrants when he says, "You're not a citizen of the United States." but you would be wrong. He's talking to cheering supporters at a Tea Party rally. "Do you know, you’re not a citizen of the United States," Pearce said at a Tea … Read more
Arizona as a perjorative
by David Safier I posted Saturday about Utah's conservative Sutherland Institute creating a website, notaz.org: "Utah is Not Arizona." The subject of the website is Utah's more enlightened attitude toward immigration. Now it's Illinois using Arizona as a symbol of anti-immigrant hysteria. When the state assembly defeated 10 anti-immigrant bills, the way they defined the … Read more
Rep. Young (R-Alaska) advocating overthrow of U.S.?
by David Safier This is part of the continuing saga of Republicans going too far in their efforts to establish their Tea Party/NRA cred in a party where Crazy is the new Normal — or maybe being emboldened by their party's swing to the right to say what they were thinking all along. This time … Read more
“Save Ethnic Studies” objects to audit of MAS
by David Safier
The Save Ethnic Studies group just put out a news release objecting to the upcoming audit of TUSD's Mexican American Studies program. Much of the argument against the audit is on legal grounds: interviews with students could violate their rights to privacy under the Family, Educational and Privacy Rights Act of 1974; and since MAS teachers and the program director have pending litigation concerning similar issues, the audit sponsored by the ADE will be problematic if it tries to communicate with "a represented party."
These types of issues are way above my pay grade, so I'm including the entire news release after the jump.
