September 9, 2009 was a historic day at the U.S. Supreme Court. Meeting in special session, the Court considered a legal challenge pitting Barack Obama’s top Supreme Court lawyer against a living legend in a major First Amendment case that will forever shape how elections are conducted in America. And in her Supreme Court debut, Sonia Sotomayor gave the first hint of what kind of justice she will be.
In an unusual move, the Court cut short its summer recess, holding a special session to rehear new arguments in Citizens United v. FEC. The group Citizens United, run by public-interest...












Justices Tackle McCain-Feingold While Sotomayor Throws a Curve
To further explain, when a drunk employee driving a company vehicle hits and kills a family in a car, the employee is arrested, not the corporation. The corporation is only an entity whose...