Category Archives: Supreme Court
“COMMENTARY: Free speech just got more expensive”
Jusus Baird of Religion News Service has written a commentary which begins:
Dear Supreme Court justices: When I heard about the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission ruling, it made me plotz.
I’m a rabbi, so I know much more about… Continue reading
“Obama, Citing New Laws, Says the G.O.P. Is Moving to Restrict Voting Rights”
“McCain-Feingold’s devastating legacy”
“The war against American citizens”
Katrina vanden Heuvel WaPo column:
In 1971, before becoming a Supreme Court justice, Lewis F. Powell Jr. penned a memo to his friend Eugene Sydnor of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce advocating a comprehensive strategy in favor of corporate interests.… Continue reading
Lithwick on the Disappearing Political Outrage over SCOTUS’s Campaign Finance Decisions, and Disappearing Colbert
Dahlia:
It’s clear that at least some proportion of Americans are even more likely than they were before to give up the fight; to become further disaffected and disenfranchised in the wake of a decision by the court to… Continue reading
“What kinds of Supreme Court cases interest Americans? Not campaign finance”
“Congressional Overrides of Supreme Court Statutory Interpretation Decisions, 1967–2011”
Matthew Christiansen and Bill Eskridge have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Texas Law Review). Here is the abstract:
In 1991, one of us published a groundbreaking study demonstrating that Congress frequently overrides Supreme Court statutory interpretation decisions. The intervening… Continue reading
A Tale of Two Campaign Finance Appeals at SCOTUS: Why No Push to Allow Corporate Contributions to Candidates?
Pardon the inside-baseball post, but I think it reveals a little bit more about how the Court is going about dismantling what’s left of campaign finance limits.
After the Supreme Court decided McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down the aggregate… Continue reading
“GOP creates new fundraising group after McCutcheon ruling”
Byron Tau reports:
In the wake of a major campaign finance ruling from the Supreme Court last week, the three major Republican Party committees have formed a new joint fundraising effort that will allow them to collect big checks from… Continue reading