Reporter Todd Ruger covered the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., for The National Law Journal, where he hung out with lobbyists on the make, caught the big speeches and talked to lawyer/delegates about why the convention mattered to them. For more of his dispatches, and those of NLJ reporter Andrew Ramonas, who covered the GOP convention in Tampa, Fla., with Ruger, please visit http://legaltimes.typepad.com/.

Taking on ‘Citizens United’

In his September 6 speech accepting the Democratic nomination for a second term in the White House, Obama targeted lobbyists and the U.S. Supreme Court for one-line criticisms.