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Fired is the New Retired
The idiocy of axing older employees.
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Fineman Predicts: Justice Stevens to Retire Next Spring
Less than two weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens made news in a typically elliptical court way. He announced that he had hired only one─as opposed to the full complement of four
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Supreme Court Revisits Campaign-Finance Reform
Is the Supreme Court poised to overhaul the nation’s campaign finance laws? That’s the question as the court holds a special session today to rehear a case that could potentially change laws that restrict spending by corporations and unions on campaigns. The case centers on Hillary: The Movie, an unflattering 90-minute film about Hillary Clinton that the conservative group Citizens United produced during the 2008 campaign. Back then, the Federal Election Commission ruled the film was the equivalent of an attack ad and therefore came under the regulation of a 2002 campaign finance law that restricts spending by outside groups trying to affect the outcome of a campaign. Citizens United promptly sued, claiming the FEC was trying to suppress free speech. While the Supreme Court will weigh whether the FEC’s actions in regard to the Hillary film were correct, the focus of the debate has shifted to a larger question: should corporations and unions be treated differently from individuals when it comes to campaign spending? Whatever the court decides could affect decades of campaign finance law and potentially open a floodgate of money on the eve of a potentially pivotal election year.
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07/29/2009BusinessThe Upside of Depression
…Vendler gained an understanding of how to get by with nothing—always useful for a writer—while Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens gained, in the wake of his parent's $27 million loss in the hotel business, a string of "eventful …
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07/23/2009CultureThe Sotomayor Test
…case, one has to wonder whether the Sotomayor hearings made it easier for Obama to select a more liberal candidate should John Paul Stevens or Ruth Bader Ginsburg retire in the next few years. Conservative groups are crowing that by staging what was, in effect …
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07/13/2009BlogsHow Do Sotomayor's Hearings Compare to the Other Supreme Court Justices?
…was confirmed with the support of four Democrats. Interestingly the two justices often considered the most polarizing - John Paul Stevens and Antonin Scalia - had relatively non-controversial confirmations. Stevens is the longest serving member of the Supreme …
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06/12/2009PoliticsThe Typecast Party
…appointment. Whether it's a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has had health challenges, or Justice John Paul Stevens , who recently turned 89, liberals hope the president will nominate someone as outspoken and provocative on …
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05/02/2009Letters to the EditorA Profile of an Ex-Governor in Exile
…training. Ted Zaydel Waterford, Mich. Correction A caption in the May 4 edition of Conventional Wisdom Watch misidentified the Supreme Court justice in the photograph. It was John Paul Stevens , not David Souter. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.
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