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The President calls out Republicans for blocking campaign finance reforms that would address last year’s Supreme Court decision opening the floodgates of corporate money into elections.

Last week Target Corporation gave $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, an anti-gay groups supporting Republican Tom Emmer’s campaign for Minnesota governor. This donation, clearly acceptible under the new Citizens United Supreme Court ruling angered many in the state, seeing this as a $150,000 contribution to fund ant-gay politics.One Eden Prairie mom and grandmother took her anger directly to a Target. Her repeated attempts to get to Target executives failed so she took her Target Charge Card. A $226 purchase on that card was immediately returned for credit and she scissored her Target card into little pieces to be used no more,

I got a response from Target and this is a good one.

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I am not a law scholar. I do not pretend to be. I am just someone who tries to understand why the hell people do the stupid things that they do.

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The White House struck back at comments made by Chief Justice John Roberts criticizing the president for using his State of the Union pulpit to voice disapproval of the high court’s ruling on campaign finance regulations. Judy Woodruff gets two views on strains in the relationship between the institutions.

From the White House: The President talks about his first year fighting against special interests and barring lobbyists from his Administration, as well as the fight to come in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced a disastrous rollback of campaign finance laws. Their 5-4 decision gives corporations free rein to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections.

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She did it! She has finally beaten all odds and is now the newest member of the US Supreme Court! The Senate confirmed her in a 68-31 vote. The Judge who permanently has her foot in her mouth (and maybe in other places too), has been appointed!

Sonia Sotomayor, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1997, was a “qualified” candidate for the Supreme Court and will most likely do a great job. She just has a problem of saying stupid things, but who doesn’t?

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