Category Archives: Supreme Court

“Trump judicial adviser’s ‘dark money’ network hides Supreme Court spending”

January 8, 2020, 6:29 amSupreme CourtDan Tokaji

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

December 23, 2019, 9:45 amjudicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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”

December 19, 2019, 8:18 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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

December 16, 2019, 8:24 pmcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Read the cert. petition in National Association for Gun Rights v. Mangan.

“Supreme Court Acts in Campaign Finance and Libel Cases”

November 25, 2019, 8:30 pmcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT reports. My earlier coverage is here.

Breaking: Supreme Court, Ducking Major Confrontation Over Campaign Finance Limits for Now, Reverses 9th Circuit Ruling Upholding Alaska Campaign Contribution Limits

November 25, 2019, 7:00 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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

November 18, 2019, 7:05 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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”

November 17, 2019, 9:05 pmScalia, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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

November 8, 2019, 7:47 amelectoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Read it here.

Supreme Court May Decide to Hear Major Campaign Finance Case This Week

November 6, 2019, 8:14 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

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”

October 28, 2019, 8:44 amcampaigns, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy column.

“You Can Now Hear Elena Kagan Read Her Searing Dissent in the Partisan Gerrymandering Case”

October 25, 2019, 5:15 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Slate: “For the first time ever,” Justice Elena Kagan declared on June 27, “this court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities.”Kagan was reading a summary of her dissent in Rucho v. Common … Continue reading

Wall Street Journal Editorial Page Quotes My Tweet About Mayor Pete and Justice Kennedy Without Naming Me

October 24, 2019, 10:10 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Interesting: Mr. Buttigieg criticized Ms. Warren and Beto O’Rourke for being too extreme on health care and guns at last week’s Democratic debate, and now he’s changing on the issue that ignited his unlikely candidacy. In an interview with Cosmopolitan,… Continue reading

“Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Michigan partisan gerrymander”

October 21, 2019, 8:12 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Pete Williams: The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a challenge to maps drawn by Republicans for state legislative and congressional district boundaries in Michigan.The decision, which allows the GOP districts to stand, was expected because the court declared in… Continue reading