Yesterday marked a significant anniversary in campaign finance history: the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission that concluded corporations are legally people and can use unlimited campaign funds to support candidates for public office. Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer discussed the decision yesterday before the South Carolina bar, with Scalia telling opponents of the decision to just turn their TVs off if they didn’t like seeing all the negative ads.

Newt Gingrich has now put his crusade against judicial activism at the forefront of his presidential campaign. Over the past week, he has argued that if elected president, he would opt to ignore certain judicial rulings if he determines the decision is not within the authority of the court. He has been attacked by Constitutional scholars and lawyers over his position, and on Face The Nation today, Gingrich defended his position to Bob Schieffer.

On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Ann Coulter did not mince words when dissecting Newt Gingrich‘s views on executive power and directly challenging the authority of Supreme Court justices by potentially having them subpoenaed under a Gingrich presidency. She argued that the frontrunner candidate has a history of making over-the-top, bombastic statements that only ever end up hurting the conservative cause.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon hear arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care overhaul signed into law back in March of 2010. While the legality of what its detractors call “Obamacare” is the primary issue at play, a secondary –and more media-centric — issue has also arisen, and that is the costs and benefits of broadcasting the proceedings live from the nation’s highest court, as has been requested by both C-SPAN and Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA.) In the esteem of Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, there are two simple words why the Supreme Court will never allow cameras inside their edifice: Jon Stewart.

After attending the dedication of Martin Luther King’s National Memorial in D.C. on Sunday, Dr. Cornel West and a throng of protesters marched to the Supreme Court to highlight a myriad of issues: Wall Street greed, support for the Occupy protesters, and overtaxed workers. West and 18 others were arrested. Dennis Trainor, Jr., host for No Cure For That TV, marched with and interviewed West before being carted off to jail himself:

On last night’s Nightline, retired Justice John Paul Stevens told George Stphanopoulos that in his 34 and a half years of service, “I really think that I’ve thought over a lot of cases I’ve written over the years.  And I really wouldn’t want to do any one of them over.” Except for maybe one: the 1976 Jurek v. Texas case wherein the death penalty was upheld as not cruel and unusual. ”I think that I came out wrong on that,” he says.

In 2006, legal commentator Jeffrey Rosen wrote that the Roberts court was among the most united and civil in history. In this month’s New Republic, however, Rosen revisits the Court to find it factionalizing in surprising ways, threatening the existence of any single definition of legal conservatism. While Rosen puts the blame on no one, one new phenomenon of the past five years seems directly related to this rift: the Tea Party, for which Rosen argues Justice Clarence Thomas has emerged as its “legal arm.”

Earlier today the Supreme Court officially struck down a California ban on selling violent video games to minors, stating officially that “video games qualify for First Amendment protection.” The official vote was 7-2 against the ban, with Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas dissenting.

Well, health care law opponents, looks like you’re just going to have to be a little more patient. Virginia’s Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli had made a request that the Supreme Court make a ruling on the oft-debated “Obamacare” sooner rather than later, skipping federal appeals courts. However, the judges have put the kibosh on the idea. Aw, but we wanted to know the high court’s findings on the constitutionality of the sweeping legislation nooooooooow!

Oh, my. Perhaps it’s best not to know whether or not our Supreme Court justices are aware of–or actively engaged in–the use of social media, including, of course, “the Twitter.” Judging exclusively on a discussion captured on tape by C-SPAN, it’s a topic best left off the table, much in the same way you wouldn’t ask your grandmother for her impressions of the virtues of running a mobile meth lab a la Breaking Bad. “I actually have a tweeting thing,” begins Justice Stephen Breyer in the hearing on the Supreme Court’s budget (that got terribly off track). “I was very interested in this Iranian revolution, remember when they just had this uprising…I sat there fascinated, because you actually could look through the tweeting and you could see what was going on.”

“The only way you could do it was to go through the tweet, or the tweeter,” he explained. Justice Breyer says it’s flattering to be asked to be followed, and it’s the same with “the Facebook.”

The Supreme Court today decided to uphold a previous ruling by the federal court of appeals ordering the Federal Reserve to reveal details about emergency lending by the central bank during the recent financial crisis. The Court’s ruling effectively rejects an appeal filed by the Clearing House Association, which had hoped to prevent such information from being disclosed to the public.

On this afternoon’s Studio B, Fox News’ Shepard Smith announced the Supreme Court’s 8 to 1 ruling that the fundamentalist, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church’s anti-gay protests near military funerals are protected under the First Amendment. The organization has faced overwhelming criticism not only for its hateful and homophobic rhetoric, but also for its proclivity towards protesting the funerals of soldiers and, recently, those organized for the victims of the Tucson, Arizona shooting that left nine dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the hospital with a bullet to the head.

Rush Limbaugh is not only upset with President Obama for leading this country towards what he deems to be a giant “constitutional crisis” but he’s also annoyed with your friends here at Mediaite. Rush previously claimed Obama would be “lawless” if he did not immediately follow the recent court decision declaring Obamacare to be unconstitutional and now he bizarrely takes us to task for not vociferously agreeing with him?

After spending a few days as the Illinois judicial system’s hot potato du jour, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has finally, officially been allowed back on the ballot for mayor in Chicago. Emanuel’s place in the mayoral race had been in dispute since he moved back to Chicago to run, with the Illinois Appellate Court having ruled that his tenure as Chief of Staff in Washington, D.C. revoked his Chicago residency.

Justice Antonin Scalia, a man who knows his pizza, is now courting controversy by accepting Representative Michele Bachman‘s invitation to speak to the House’s Tea Party Caucus about the constitution, specifically on the topic of “Separation of Powers.”

The average age of the Supreme Court is currently 64, a year shy of retirement age. Yet that’s still no excuse for the bench to be completely clueless when it comes to social media. So it was a bit disheartening when Justice Stephen Breyer revealed that he and his colleagues can’t quite grasp modern technology. As he said in a speech at Vanderbilt, “If I’m applying the First Amendment, I have to apply it to a world where there’s an Internet, and there’s Facebook.” Hey, that’s this world! He continued, “And there are movies like The Social Network, which I couldn’t even understand.”

On the cusp of the first major national elections since the Supreme Court ruled corporations have the First Amendment right to speech in politics, the echo chamber of public political discourse sounds all the louder with all those extra voices. While on legal grounds it’s unclear what it is about Citizens United that seems to evoke hysteria in many talking heads, they have good reason to want to lower the volume: to better hear themselves talk.

While talking to George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer questioned whether the First Amendment condones Koran burning, comparing the act to falsely shouting “fire” in a crowded theater.

After a lengthy set of Senate confirmation hearings and a 63-to-37 vote in her favor on Thursday, Elena Kagan has now officially become a member of the United States Supreme Court. She is the fourth woman to serve on the Court and the third to be joining the current bench.

Retailers Target and Best Buy are under fire from gay rights groups, who are organizing boycotts over both companies’ corporate donations to support Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, who they say is virulently anti-gay. The donations of $150,000 and $100,000, respectively, were made possible by the Supreme Court’s hotly debated Citizens United decision, which allows unlimited political donations by corporations. This confrontation will test the limiting effect of the free market on Citizens United.

Need evidence that Elena Kagan has shown good judgment? In 1995 she wrote that the Supreme Court confirmation process was “vapid” and “takes on an air of vacuity and farce.” Well Jon Stewart agrees with that assessment, wrapping up last week’s Kagan-mania last night, which he ended by asking “after four days of insinuation, obfuscation and very little illumination, where do we stand?” Well, not only does Kagan seem ready to be confirmed, but we now also have a funny clip for us all to enjoy.

No, that’s not a CNN Hologram, and Jack Cafferty doesn’t need his glasses. Today, filling in for host Wolf Blitzer, Suzanne Malveaux discussed the developments in Elena Kagan‘s Congressional hearings with Catholic University Columbia Law School professor Suzette Malveaux– her twin sister.

While the media has spent most of Elena Kagan‘s Supreme Court hearings fishing for the most entertaining tidbits (not an easy feat), parts of the substantive discussion that weren’t about Twilight were fascinating, too. Today, Minnesota Senator Al Franken posed to Kagan challenging questions about the state of the media, and gauged her comfort level with major media mergers like the proposed one between Comcast and NBC Universal.

There are few things more important to our country, our society, our very way of life than the United States Supreme Court. Therefore, the selection of a new justice is one of the most interesting news stories possible. Every few years, we, as Americans, get to sit back and literally watch history being made in front of our very eyes. We get to see our country’s future being written. We get to- Oh my God! Is Al Franken falling asleep? He totally is!

Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions questioned the strength of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan‘s moral principles today. Sessions argued that Kagan’s opposition of military recruitment on the Harvard campus– which she called a discriminatory group due to its Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy– was hypocritical as she did not also protest against the creation of a new Center for Islamic Studies “and Sharia Law.”