Aug 20, 2012
A VLTP Special Report – ALEC’s Federal Interference, Part II August 20, 2012 | by Bob Sloan Last month I began a two part series that began with “ALEC, the Koch Led CABAL & “The Amicus Project” – Fed Court Interference.” The first segment dealt with identifying and exposing ALEC’s Koch-funded cabal interfering with our [...]
Jul 24, 2012
A VLTP Special Report – by Bob Sloan, re-posted from Daily Kos. This is a lengthy but highly important article. We cut it down and took out sections we intend to include in subsequent Exposé’s on ALEC and in so doing realized that the single issue of ALEC’s interference in our judiciary still requires a two part [...]
Jul 3, 2012
But Roberts is a conservative, and a very smart, forward-looking one at that. What Roberts accomplished on one issue was to enshrine two conservative ideologies — without the Democrats even noticing while they were cheering. He did this by using the Court’s ability to turn metaphors into law. He accomplished this with two votes. …First [...]
Jun 29, 2012
Even before the Supreme Court issued its ruling on NFIB v. Sebelius, the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, Fox News and CNN both announced that “Dewey Beats Truman”. And the rhetoric from the right wing has only become more wrong, more obfuscating, more incredibly uninformed. Of course part of this is just the GOP [...]
Jun 29, 2012
In a little-noticed ruling amidst clamor over the healthcare decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, holding it was preempted by the National Voting Registration Act (NVRA). The law was adopted as a “model” bill by the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] in [...]
Jun 24, 2012
Alan Grayson warned the Supreme Court that if they strike down Obamacare, the entire country will know that they are nothing more than a right wing cabal. Here is a link to the video from MSNBC: http://youtu.be/8j-TfxtQnws [on theVLTPVideoChannel] …..Grayson’s comment that it will be clear to everyone that the Supreme Court will be a [...]
Jun 13, 2012
The key issue toward restoring our democracy is back before the Supreme Court, who’ll meet behind closed doors on Thursday. That key issue is of course the “Citizens United” ruling the Court made in January 2010 that gave corporations the same rights as people, brought about Super Pac’s and the gusher of money into the [...]
