The SCOTUS Five: making the world safe for corruption?
Three of the court's conservatives, Scalia (left) Chief Justice Roberts (center) and Alito (right)
Apparently, public corruption is NOT like pornography. Tony Scalia doesn’t know it when he sees it. And that’s not just because Supreme Court justices live sheltered, sexless lives (had a Coke lately, Clarence…?) No, it’s because like corporations, including multinationals with substantial foreign ownership, investing unlimited sums in American elections, politicians should be allowed to trade their votes for money from time to time. Read more
Friday round-up: prefab homes for Haiti, Alito and Obama not friends
President Obama goes into the lion’s den today, to meet with House Republicans who have already made clear they’re not planning to cooperate with him, because they still see political advantage in saying “no.”
Oh, and before I forget: bye-bye, healthcare!
A South Florida architect has a great idea for housing Haiti’s estimated 800,000 homeless in the wake of the 1/12 earthquake: lightweight but sturdy, modular, temporary housing that can be built just down the road in Miami Gardens. The Miami Herald reports the easy-up homes, by influential Miami architect Andrés Duany (a stalwart on green building), are made from “nearly indestructible, space-age materials,” sleep eight people in bunk-like beds, and fold down to a 2-foot package than could easily be shipped to the island. Story here. Schematics of the modulars here.
Also in the Herald, get your Obama flip-flops! Perfect for wearing to the store in Miami, instead of those damned, fuzzy bedroom slippers!
The L.A. Times (and last night on CNN, Jeff Toobin) reports that there has been no flip-flop in the Barack Obama-Samuel Alito relationship. In short, it appears that Alito’s Joe Wilson moment at the SOTU after the president dared to call out the 5 judicial activists’ dreadful decision in the Citizens United / Corporations are People Too case, was just the latest opportunity for “Scalito” to show disdain for this president and his administration. According to Toobin, Alito was overheard at a dinner party not too long ago taking swipes at Joe Biden. But at least he showed up. Per the L.A. Times, Alito was the lone no-show at a reception Chief Horseman Roberts held for the soon-to-be-inaugurated president last January. Apparently, the animus has roots in Obama’s time as a Senator: Read more
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