NEWS
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CAMPUS
UF Forestry Club places high in Conclave events
By JAMES CHAPIN | Mar. 31, 2010At the Southern Forestry Conclave, the marquee event is the crosscut.
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OPINION
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COLUMNS
Supreme Court decision has grim implications for Americans
By JAMES CHAPIN | Jan. 21, 2010Some people believe that Tuesday’s Republican victory in Massachusetts, which may have cut the throat of health care reform, was big news. I beg to differ. The big news came out of a large room holding nine small people and a few witnesses on Thursday afternoon. It was doomsday for the individual in American politics. The Supreme Court decided on Thursday that corporations and unions are no longer beholden to the rules that had limited their spending on federal elections. Remember that date. Because the gargantuan coffers of those corporations and unions are now open very, very wide, and the words “shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech” have led to some very murky consequences. Justice John Paul Stevens read a long, lonely dissent from the bench. He called the decision “a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have ... fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the time of Theodore Roosevelt.”
