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Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a provision of federal campaign fi stanley cup nance law capping the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made to their campaign, siding with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to the restriction.The 6-3 ruling from the court s conservative majority is the latest in a string of decisions that have unraveled campaign finance limits under the First Amendment. This latest legal fight was mounted by Cruz, who loaned his 2018 reelection campaign $260,000 the day before the general election to force a challenge to the law.Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said the provision at the center of the case, known as Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate, botella stanley burdens candidates who wish to make expenditures on behalf of their own candidacy through personal loans, and violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and their campaigns to engage in political speech. By inhibiting a candidate from using this critical source of campaign funding, however, Section 304 raises a barrier to entry mdash; thus abridging pol stanley tumbler itical speech, Roberts wrote.Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, the court s three liberal justices, dissented. Kagan, joined by her two colleagues, warned that with its decision, the court s majority greenlights all the sordid bargains Congress thought right to stop through the loan-repayment limitation. Zkdd Mississippi s governor signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. Abortion-rights supporters said they ll sue.
The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater stanley cup Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky With a subsequent series of calamitous world events, the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill stanley cup of last Apri stanley thermosflasche l managed to slip out of the headlines relatively quickly. Recently, however, the oil spill made a roaring comeback in the public consciousness, mostly for the wrong reasons. Last week it was announced that Transocean Ltd., which was given at least one-third of the blame for the spill, gave its top executives massive bonuses for the best year in safety performance in our company s history. After a series of public condemnations from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as certain comedic television personalities, Transocean executives announced they will be donating the bonuses to a memorial fund for the victims of the explosion of its oil rig - which BP had leased - that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, reports the Politico website. The executive team made this decision because we believe it is the right thing to do, CEO Steven Newman said in a statement. Nothing is more important to Transocean than our people, and it was ne
Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Monday invalidated a provision of federal campaign fi stanley cup nance law capping the amount of money a candidate can be repaid for personal loans made to their campaign, siding with GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to the restriction.The 6-3 ruling from the court s conservative majority is the latest in a string of decisions that have unraveled campaign finance limits under the First Amendment. This latest legal fight was mounted by Cruz, who loaned his 2018 reelection campaign $260,000 the day before the general election to force a challenge to the law.Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said the provision at the center of the case, known as Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate, botella stanley burdens candidates who wish to make expenditures on behalf of their own candidacy through personal loans, and violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and their campaigns to engage in political speech. By inhibiting a candidate from using this critical source of campaign funding, however, Section 304 raises a barrier to entry mdash; thus abridging pol stanley tumbler itical speech, Roberts wrote.Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, the court s three liberal justices, dissented. Kagan, joined by her two colleagues, warned that with its decision, the court s majority greenlights all the sordid bargains Congress thought right to stop through the loan-repayment limitation. Zkdd Mississippi s governor signed one of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. Abortion-rights supporters said they ll sue.
The Transocean Development Driller III, the rig responsible for drilling the main relief well at the site of the Deepwater stanley cup Horizon oil wellhead, is seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana, in this Aug. 14, 2010 file photo. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky With a subsequent series of calamitous world events, the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill stanley cup of last Apri stanley thermosflasche l managed to slip out of the headlines relatively quickly. Recently, however, the oil spill made a roaring comeback in the public consciousness, mostly for the wrong reasons. Last week it was announced that Transocean Ltd., which was given at least one-third of the blame for the spill, gave its top executives massive bonuses for the best year in safety performance in our company s history. After a series of public condemnations from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, as well as certain comedic television personalities, Transocean executives announced they will be donating the bonuses to a memorial fund for the victims of the explosion of its oil rig - which BP had leased - that killed 11 people and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, reports the Politico website. The executive team made this decision because we believe it is the right thing to do, CEO Steven Newman said in a statement. Nothing is more important to Transocean than our people, and it was ne