“Hillary Clinton Supports Amendment To Get Hidden Money Out Of Politics”
Peter Overby reports for NPR. My earlier Slate piece criticizing Clinton on this is here.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“Hillary Clinton’s Bad Campaign Finance Ideas; She’s right that money in politics is a problem. But suggesting a constitutional amendment is foolish.”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
People are deservedly angry about the unprecedented flow of money into our elections. On Wednesday a postal worker literally risked his life to land a gyrocopter near the U.S. Capitol to… Continue reading
Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 3 at Yale
I’m delighted to be on a plenary panel about campaign finance and the First Amendment with Tabatha Abu El-Haj and moderated by Jack Balkin at Yale’s 3rd Freedom of Expression Scholars conference on May 2 and 3. The conference is… Continue reading
“Clinton calls for constitutional amendment on campaign finance”
“On the Trail of Super PAC Money”
“Do the Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County?”
Looks like a major empirical paper out from Morgan Kousser (forthcoming, Transatlanica). Here is the abstract:
In June, 2013, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court brought to an abrupt and likely permanent end the most important provision of… Continue reading
Bainbridge: “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Night-Watchman State”
New Steve Bainbridge in the Columbia Law Review Sidebar:
In a recent article,[5] Strine and his coauthor Nicholas Walter argue that the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v. FEC [6]decision poses a significant challenge for “conservative corporate… Continue reading
Justice Sotomayor Unfairly Slams #SCOTUS Press Corps
BLT:
Sotomayor also took a swipe at media coverage of the court. “I pick up a newspaper half an hour after we’ve issued a decision,” she said, “and they’re writing about what we’ve done wrong, and half the time… Continue reading
“New Report Examines Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United Era'”
Release: “A new report released today by People For the American Way Foundation explores the extreme pro-corporate jurisprudence of the Supreme Court in recent years, identifying parallels to the Court’s infamous Lochner era a century ago. “The Supreme … Continue reading
“Corrupt and Unequal, Both”
Larry Lessig in the Fordham Law Review symposium, coming closer to my position about the dangers of inequality from the campaign finance system. Here is the abstract:
The debate about the nature of the corruption of the American democracy presents… Continue reading
“Oversimplifying Corruption and the Power of Disgust”
Bob Bauer with some important points on the connection between campaign finance reform and corruption, including some reflections on my draft paper, Why Isn’t Congress More Corrupt? A Preliminary Inquiry.
“CLC Blog: Supreme Court, Meet Salomon Melgen and Senator Menendez”
“Guest Blog: Janai Nelson, Preserving the Nuance of a Suspended Section 5”
Here, at Hamilton and Griffin on rights.