McComish v. Bennett is coming before the Supreme Court this week — a test of the constitutionality of Arizona’s Clean Elections law.  Will McComish constitute a return to sanity, or one more dreadful step toward complete corporate manipulation of our electoral system?  A couple of comments: From Doug Kendall – http://www.huffing

Press release just issued by the Campaign Legal Center.  Considering the mess that is Citizens United, this denial of review comes as a bit of a relief.  Yet, there will be no true return to democracy without an amendment overturning Citizens United (or a miraculous 180 by the Supremes), and the incorporation of even stricter controls on campaign

Frank Pasquale’s review of the The Googlization of Everything reflects a capturing of a work that addresses the dangers of control over our identities, our location, the bare facts of our existence. This is not merely Orwellian in dimension but, per the book’s author, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Kafkaesque in dimension. Full credit to Pasquale

Well, as my Constitutional Law students will tell you, I called the result, the vote, and the identity of the dissenter.  What was my basis? I recalled the Court’s ruling last year in U.S. v. Stevens (the ‘crush’ video case), read Alito’s dissent therein, and knew that neither Kennedy nor Scalia (with decent Free Speech rec

Credit to Jurist:  http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/03/supreme-court-rules-corporations-lack-personal-privacy.php? Alright, last week, the Supreme Court ruled — unanimously — in FCC v. AT&T, that the FOIA’s “personal privacy” exemption does not apply to corporations.  Is this a good ruling?  Yes, it establishes

Well, that is an understatement.  However, one of the proposed bills targets speech — speech which was specifically the subject of successful litigation of which I was a direct part of the legal team.  In approximately 2008, Jack Stelmack served as an elementary school principal in Lakeland, Florida.  Without getting too deeply into my bel

Grateful acknowledgment to Harvey Kaye and New Deal 2.0: As many of you know, The Brett Law Firm Blog serves a dual purpose:  (1) Discussion of legal issues; and (2) Discussion of political economic issues.  The ongoing fight of public employees cuts across both areas.  The current threat from reactionary governors and legislators, such as Scott

First, I will, for once, quote Ronald Reagan, who stated that “one of the most elemental human rights [is] the right to belong to a free trade union.”  See http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12392 for more on Reagan’s commentary. We are presently witnessing an unprecedented assault upon workers’ rights to organize and collecti

Last evening, I was fulfilled by the opportunity of being a special guest lecturer at an ACLU function.  The principal topic of the discussion was Free Speech on the Internet.  Also, I did not realize — until after the lecture — that there was an extraordinarily special guest in the audience.  Bernard Cohen approached me following my

In all of the recent hubbub within my practice — including some travel — I neglected to acknowledge the exciting surrounding the Food Not Bombs appeal before an en banc panel of the Eleventh Circuit.  Following a good result from the District Court that granted injunctive relief versus the City of Halifax’s ordinance that severel