Roll Call:
Virginia’s election officials urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to keep in place a new, judge-selected redistricting plan for this year’s congressional elections, putting the officials at odds with 10 current and former members of the state’s… Continue reading
Michael Kent Curtis and Eugene Mazo have posted this draft on SSRN (Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
This article deals with several campaign finance decisions of the Roberts Court and tries to place them in a much larger… Continue reading
CNN oped:
That starts with reversing Citizens United. And that’s where my comprehensive plan to restore common sense to campaign finance begins. As president, I’ll appoint Supreme Court justices who recognize that Citizens United is bad for America. And… Continue reading
The Court denied cert. today in a case in which the D.C. Circuit en banc had unanimously upheld federal law banning direct campaign contributions to candidates by federal contractors. (I had missed that in today’s orders because the name changed… Continue reading
[Updated and bumped to the top for Thursday’s event]
My book tour event in New York, on January 21 (full book tour info):
The Brennan Center for Justice presents:
Plutocrats United
A Book Talk with Professor Richard Hasen… Continue reading
Adam Liptak NYT Sidebar column:
The Citizens United decision, which amplified the role of money in American politics, also promised something like a level playing field. Both corporations and unions, it said, could spend what they liked to support… Continue reading