In his Capital Times op-ed, Jay Heck takes shots at Wisconsin's legislature for failing to act on a campaign finance reform bill, and accuses the group of quietly, "smothering it with a pillow"....
It appears supporters of impartial courts are learning their ranks may be larger than expected. On the heels of this week's ousting of Justice Maynard from West Virginia's high court, news appeared in the Charleston Gazette....
Certain American values transcend partisan divisions. One is that money should not influence the courts. But with record sums pouring into judicial elections, the ideal of due process is giving way to a perception of pay-to-play justice...
Last night's State of the Union address was about legacy-building. But President Bush spent only a moment of his hour-long speech on a subject that could be his most enduring legacy of all...
