6th Circuit Denies Preliminary Injunction in Judicial Campaign Solicitation Case
You can read the opinion here, which says very little on the merits of the constitutional claim.
Category Archives: judicial elections
“Can Judicial Candidates Solicit Money?”
Andrew Cohen on Williams-Yulee.
“Justices in Walker Criminal Probe Face Conflicts of Interest”
Brendan Fischer: “The Wisconsin Supreme Court could decide the future of the criminal investigation into Governor Scott Walker and independent electoral groups, but some of the justices are faced with a significant conflict of interest: two of the groups… Continue reading
“FAN 34.2 (First Amendment News) — Court agrees to hear judicial campaign solicitation case”
Breaking: Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Redistricting Case and Florida Case on Judicial Campaign Speech: Analysis
The number of election laws the Supreme Court has heard with a full argument has dropped off in recent years, I believe in part because voting rights advocates have tried to stay out of the Supreme Court. (See my ELJ… Continue reading
“Judges on the Campaign Trail”
Adam Liptak has an important column in the NYT Sunday Review on judicial elections. It discusses, among other cases, the Williams-Yulee case that the Supreme Court could agree to take up next week. It also discusses the Ninth Circuit’s Wolfson … Continue reading
“Ninth Circuit grants rehearing en banc in Arizona judicial candidate campaign free speech case”
“Supreme Court candidates square off in Missoula”
Lots of talk of campaign finance.
OH Supreme Court Says It is OK to Bar False Judicial Campaign Speech, But Not Misleading Judicial Campaign Speech
Read the opinion (via CNO).
I think the part about the unconstitutionality of regulating truthful but misleading speech is surely right. But this opinion is also significant in saying it is constitutional to sanction a judicial candidate for… Continue reading
Six of Seven Montana Supreme Court Justices File Federal Brief Supporting Ban on Partisan Judicial Endorsements
Even with Potential GOP Sweep in Ohio State Offices, Supreme Court Race Could Change from R to D
Columbus Dispatch:
But Republican Supreme Court Justice Judith L. French is losing by 6 points to Cleveland Judge John P. O’Donnell, with more than half the voters undecided. Judicial candidates do not have party labels attached to their names… Continue reading
“High court weighs campaign cash in judicial race”
Miami Herald:
When Lanell Williams-Yulee began running for a Hillsborough County judgeship in 2009, she signed a letter to would-be supporters seeking contributions for her campaign.
Now, five years later, Williams-Yulee’s letter could spur the U.S. Supreme Court to… Continue reading
“The specter of more frequent ‘100-year floods'”
David Ettinger has written this interesting post at the At the Lectern blog. It begins:
Not long after California voters ousted Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso from the state Supreme Court, new Chief… Continue reading
“GOP Supreme Court candidate banned at fair booth”
The Star-Tribune reports that “[Republican] Party officials passed a resolution banning Michelle MacDonald from the GOP’s booth because of a pending drunken driving case.”