Here. I reflected on that cert. denial and the different treatment of another campaign finance case here.

Great New Yorker cartoon.

Earlier today I linked to Adam Liptak’s interview with Justice Stevens about campaign finance and his proposed amendment. A reader reminded me that Marcia Coyle’s excellent 2013 book, The Roberts Court: the Struggle for the Constitution, provides an… Continue reading

New report from CCP. “Policymakers in the District of Columbia and the 18 states with aggregate limits and proportional bans should strongly consider repealing these speech-stifling regulations in order to comply with the precedent set in the McCutcheon decision and… Continue reading

The other day I noted that Justice Breyer cited to unavailable scholarship in his McCutcheon dissent. I updated the post to reflect that Derek Muller had made those points when the opinion was released, something I had missed.  Here’s another… Continue reading

For one thing, in this column Justice Stevens confirms the rumors swirling for years that Justice Souter wrote the first draft of a Citizens United dissent.  (I called for its release in this Slate column.) The draft dissent,… Continue reading

Peter Schuck has written this oped for the LA Times.

I have written this book review for The Daily Beast. It begins: Reading retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s new book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, I was reminded of an old Steve… Continue reading