An Easy To Follow Primer For This Week’s SCOTUS Healthcare Ruling

By Rick Ungar – This is the week.

With the Supreme Court expected to hand down it’s decision on Obamacare as early as Monday morning, here is an easy to follow review of what the court will be deciding—and what it all might mean.

Believe it or not, one possible outcome could be a decision that any ruling is premature. more> http://tinyurl.com/6ohqspx

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Super PACS: Follow the money – if you can

By Marcus Stern, Kristina Cooke and Alexander Cohen - Ever since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in the Citizens United case paved the way for Super PACS, they have been a legitimate new tactic for political campaigns. As far as can be determined, Winning Our Future (WOF), the pro-Gingrich political action committee, did not do anything impermissible under campaign finance laws. But a look at its regular reports to the Federal Election Commission reveals a degree of legerdemain that appears commonplace in FEC records and makes it difficult for the public to know who ends up with the record amounts of money flowing into the political system today.

“Opaque transactions in politics undermine public confidence in the process,” said Meredith McGeehee, owner of McGehee Strategies, which works on public interest advocacy, and policy director at the Campaign Legal Center. more> http://tinyurl.com/78vz44u

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