POSTED: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 11:49 am

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

From time to time, I hear people say something like, “It’s not only important the judicial system be fair; it is important the judicial system be perceived as fair.”

POSTED: Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 at 1:48 pm

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

I had been generally aware that some congressmen who don’t like the First Amendment and who particularly dislike the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010), wanted to get around the decision by passing a constitutional amendment to overturn it.