“Citizens United at 10”
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Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Revisiting Campaign Finance Regulation 10 Years After Citizens United”
Video:
ACS held a panel discussion on the state of campaign finance on January 16, 2020. Titled “Revisiting Campaign Finance Regulation 10 Years After Citizens United,” the event featured Jason Abel, Lee Goodman, Chisun Lee, and Ciara Torres-Spelliscy and… Continue reading
“Citizens United After 10 Years: More Speech, Better Democracy”
Scott Blackburn analysis for IFS.
“Trump judicial adviser’s ‘dark money’ network hides Supreme Court spending”
From the Center for Responsive Politics:
A secretive network spending millions of dollars to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks terminated multiple 501(c)(4) nonprofit nodes last year while funneling money to an even more opaque limited-liability company,… Continue reading
Steve Bainbridge on Delaware Judges’ Case at U.S. Supreme Court
WLF:
What is the judicial role? Are judges mere umpires who call balls and strikes based solely on rules made by others? Or are judges lawmakers in their own right, creating laws and making public policy? The U.S. Supreme… Continue reading
“The Decade of Citizens United”
I have written this piece for Slate, part of their coverage of the end of the decade. It begins:
In 2010, the largest reported individual contributors to federal campaigns in American politics were Robert and Doylene Perry, owners of Perry… Continue reading
New Cert. Petition Challenges Montana’s Rules for Regulating Political Committees That Avoid Express Advocacy
Read the cert. petition in National Association for Gun Rights v. Mangan.
“Supreme Court Acts in Campaign Finance and Libel Cases”
Breaking: Supreme Court, Ducking Major Confrontation Over Campaign Finance Limits for Now, Reverses 9th Circuit Ruling Upholding Alaska Campaign Contribution Limits
I’ve been keeping my eye on Thompson v. Hebdon v. Hebdon for a long time. In this case, leading Supreme Court attorney Paul Clement filed a petition for the Supreme Court to take a case challenging Alaska’s campaign contribution limits… Continue reading
Supreme Court Takes No Action Again on Major Campaign Finance Petition
Supreme Court takes no action yet again on major campaign finance petition. Court could eventually grant, or, perhaps at this point more likely now would be either some kind of summary action or a dissent from denial of cert. from… Continue reading
“Was Antonin Scalia ‘The Justice of Contradictions’? Rick Hasen explains”
The San Francisco Review of Book’s Joseph Cotto interviewed me about my book on Justice Scalia’s jurisprudence and legacy. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8EeWRPrNjI
Michael Rosin and David Post File Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Urging It to Take Washington State Faithless Elector Case
Supreme Court May Decide to Hear Major Campaign Finance Case This Week
As early as Friday, the Supreme Court could announce it will hear a case that could put the nail into coffin of limits on campaign contributions to candidates. Here’s my preview in The Atlantic from last summer about this Paul… Continue reading
“The Supreme Court Considers Political Lies in the Bridgegate Case”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy column.