The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has drawn a rare rebuke from President Barack Obama for its corporate political spending ruling, but the justices are likely to move slowly into the economic arena, with hot-button social issues the main battleground.
In this Sept. 29, 2009 file photo, the Supreme Court poses for a portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington.
President Barack Obama sharply criticizes a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions.
President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, saying he couldn’t “think of anything more devastating to the public interest.” He also suggested the…
Reporting from Baghdad – Iraq’s president has asked the country’s Supreme Court to rule on the legality of a ban on hundreds of candidates in the upcoming elections, offering the first official challenge to a decision that could undermine the legiti…
The Supreme Court has made an important ruling on campaign finance.
McCain-Feingold required that [corporations] channel their campaign spending by creating a special fund, known as a political action committee, which can accept donations from employee…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.