“Options for Continued Reform of Money in Politics: Citizens United is Not the End”
Nicole Gordon (of the NYC Campaign Finance Board) has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Albany Law Review).
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“No Trump Effect, Yet, on Supreme Court Stalemate”
NYT:
Those pushing the stalled nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland to the Supreme Court had hoped that Donald J. Trump’s triumph in the Republican presidential primary would lead to a breakthrough with Senate Republicans who might suddenly see Judge… Continue reading
“Chemerinsky: Should SCOTUS have turned down these election law cases?”
Erwin Chemerinsky in the ABA Journal:
At the beginning of American history, the Supreme Court was required to hear every case brought to it. Over time, Congress modified these statutes, most recently in 1988, so that today the court has… Continue reading
“Did the Supreme Court Make the Right Decision in the Citizens United Case After All?”
Michael Kinsley for Vanity Fair.
“The McDonnell Case: the ‘Messages’ to Citizens”
More Bauer on McDonnell:
Zephyr Teachout has since written about the importance of the “principle” of bribery at stake in the case—the importance of “broadly” construing the “axiom that an official shouldn’t accept gifts for public duties.” She is worried… Continue reading
“A Potential Gift to Politicians, from the Justices”
Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle for the NLJ on McDonnell.
“Scalia’s death affecting next term, too? Pace of accepted cases at Supreme Court slows.”
Bob Barnes for WaPo:
The number of cases the justices have accepted has fallen, meaning that a docket that in recent years has been smaller than what is traditional is shrinking still.
The court has accepted only six cases… Continue reading
“Justices Leave Texas Voter ID Law Intact, With a Warning”
Adam Liptak reports for the NYT.
“Prosecutors Ask U.S. Supreme Court To Allow Investigation Of Walker To Continue”
“U.S. Supreme Court John Doe petition lays out legal questions in Scott Walker campaign finance coordination, judicial recusal”
“Prosecutors: Walker campaign, conservative group ‘one and the same'”
Patrick Marley for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on the John Doe cert. petition.
WI John Doe Cert. Petition Raises Substantial Questions, But #SCOTUS May Not Bite
I have posted a copy of the redacted petition for cert. in the John Doe Wisconsin case. Never before have I seen a cert. petition with even parts of the questions presented redacted. The redactions make it difficult to… Continue reading
“The face of American political corruption might be about to change”
CS Monitor:
That makes the Supreme Court case, to be decided later this spring, a crucial test: Where, exactly, does the nation’s highest court want to set the bar for what is corruption and what is not?
Comments from the… Continue reading
White House Goes “9-9-9” for Garland
At this point, though, I think things get serious with a Garland nomination only when it is clear Trump will lose and Republicans will lose control of the Senate.