Aggressive prosecution #1: California businessman commercially growing medical marijuana.

Adam Nagourney, in the NYT, gives very sympathetic treatment to Matthew R. Davies — "a round-faced 34-year-old father of two young gir...

"People keep talking about the role of government in helping people.... but a lot of the credit for helping people recover from the storm should go to businesses."

"It's all too easy to implicitly exclude businesses from our mental category of those who help people ." (Why? Because they...

New Obama ad criticizes Romney for saying that Obama said "If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen"

This is a ballsy move: Obviously, Obama said those words , and Romney supporters have seized upon those words. Rush Limbaugh has been playin...

"Why is so much ire aimed directly and uniquely at Citizens United, out of the entire body of campaign finance law?"

Asks Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg (via Instapundit ): Some of it is that the Court had to overturn precedent, but... this was not a part...

"RJ Reynolds v. FDA and the Hidden Danger of Denying Free Speech Protection to Corporations."

Aaron Worthing has an excellent post about the litigation over the FDA rules requiring new warning labels on cigarettes. IN THE COMMENTS: ca...

Justice Stevens writes of his "extreme distaste for debates about campaign financing."

That's from his new book "Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir," and it refers to his experience immediately upon his ascent t...

Reporting sex abuse to the police.

Instapundit asks: SO IF IT’S A SCANDAL WHEN PENN STATE OR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH cover up sex abuse, then why isn’t it just as big a scandal w...

Cornel West — protesting Citizens United — gets himself arrested on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reported by Susan Brooks Thisltethwaite at the Washington Post's "On Faith" blog: The Supreme Court was a fitting venue for th...

"Corporations are people, my friend," says Mitt Romney to people who aren't really his friends.

They're heckling him. He's going to get that quote thrown at him again and again, and he's ready to explain it here. He'll h...