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Citizens United is criticizing the Montana Supreme Court for its Western Tradition Partnership v. Attorney General ruling

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Will SCOTUS Stamp Out Montana’s Constitutional Mischief?

The Springs Preserve Las Vegas, Nevada 10:31 A.M. PDT MRS. OBAMA:  Yes!  Yes!  Yes, we can!  Yes, we can!  (Applause.)  You all, oh, this feels so good.  Thank you all so much.  (Applause.)  I am beyond thrilled to be here with all of you today.  Oh, my goodness.  AUDIENCE MEMBER:  We're happy to have you!  (Laughter and applause.) MRS.

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Remarks by the First Lady at a Grassroots Event – Las Vegas

ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH, 2012 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Generations of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have helped make America what it is today. Their histories recall bitter hardships and proud accomplishments — from the laborers who connected our coasts one-and-a-half centuries ago, to the patriots who fought overseas while their families were interned at home, from those who endured the harsh conditions of Angel Island, to the innovators and entrepreneurs who are driving our Nation's economic growth in Silicon Valley and beyond. Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month offers us an opportunity to celebrate the vast contributions Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made to our Nation, reflect on the challenges still faced by AAPI communities, and recommit to making the American dream a reality for all

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Presidential Proclamation — Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 2012

Private Residence McLean, Virginia   5:57 P.M. EDT   PRESIDENT CLINTON:  Hey!  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you very much.  (Applause.)  First of all, I want to thank mostly Dorothy for having us here.  (Laughter.)  Terry actually likes it when there are hundreds of people in his back yard.  (Laughter.)  And I'm delighted that their — four of their five children are here — Jack, Mary, Sally and Peter.  Dori, their other daughter, is off playing in a national tournament in lacrosse.  Jack plays rugby for the Naval Academy, where he is in his first year — and I'm very proud of him for his service he's doing.  (Applause.)   I love poor Terry McAuliffe.  He's so laid back and repressed.  (Laughter.)  He just can't express himself.  (Laughter.)  I worry about him.  But I tell you what, we had a hundred more like him we wouldn't lose as many elections — (laughter) — he is a — and I'm grateful.  (Applause.)   My job is to introduce the President.  I'm going to tell you a couple of things I hope you'll remember and share with others.  When you become President, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there, and execute it.  By that standard, Barack Obama deserves to be reelected President of the United States.  (Applause.)  And I'm going to tell you the only reason we're even meeting here.  I mean, this is crazy — he's got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids — (laughter) — which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids.  (Laughter.)   So let's be serious here.  When then-Senator Obama was running for President, he laid out a forward-looking plan to restore broad-based prosperity with a 21st century economy in the United States, to advance the national security of America, and to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries.  And if he had taken office in that world and implemented those plans in energy, education, health care and across the board — which he has done — we'd be roaring.    But then what happened?  September the 15th, 2008, we had a financial crash — only seven weeks before the election.  And it didn't bottom out till he he'd been President six months and before any of his policies had time to take effect.  If you go back 500 years, whenever a country's financial system collapses, it takes between 5 and 10 years to get back to full employment.  If you go back for the last 200 years, when buildings had been widely owned by individuals and companies, if there's a mortgage collapse it almost always takes 10 years.  He's beating the clock, not behind it.  Don't listen to those Republicans.  We are beating the clock.  (Applause.)   So if somebody says, well, but I don't feel all that great yet, or not everything is back yet, or it's still kind of slow yet, you just remind them we've gotten 4 million jobs since the recession bottomed out; the ones we lost in the crash have been restored.  Thanks to the stimulus which kept unemployment one and a half to two points lower than it would have been.  Thanks to his restructuring of the American automobile industry, which saved a million and a half jobs and created 84,000 more.  (Applause.)  Thanks to the astonishing agreement between labor and management and the environmental groups and the federal government to raise mileage standards on cars that will create 150,000 high-tech jobs and clean the environment for our future.  These are the things that have been done.

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Remarks by President Obama and Former President Clinton at a Campaign Event

Fort Stewart Hinesville, Georgia 12:45 P.M. EDT MRS

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Remarks by the President and First Lady at Fort Stewart, Georgia

Supreme Court litigants rarely obtain celebrity status after decisions are rendered. Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe, is probably the most famous former litigant because she switched sides and became a pro-life advocate in 1995. Most people don’t know..

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Filarsky Tells Delia to Read SCOTUS Opinion in Hell

In A League of Their Own, Coach Jimmy Dugan, (played by Tom Hanks), chastises one of the Rockford Peaches after a botched play, saying, “Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in baseball.” As Solicitor General Donald Verrilli,…

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There’s No Ethnic Profiling in Arizona S.B. 1070?

In a normal year, the Supreme Court’s review of the Arizona immigration law — S.B.

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Paul Clement, Donald Verrilli: Rematch This Week with S.B. 1070

The Supreme Court has been busy again this week, with two notable cert orders on Monday, three cases in oral argument, and four new decisions. Tuesday, we told you about the Court’s opinion in Filarsky v. Delia

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Opinion Recap: SCOTUS on Human Rights, Patent Law, and the Mets

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that a private attorney temporarily retained by the government to carry out its work is entitled to seek qualified immunity from a civil rights lawsuit.

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Private Attorneys Working for Government Get Qualified Immunity