Supreme Court, Without Noted Dissent, Denies Cert. in John Doe v. FEC Campaign Disclosure Case
Docket at SCOTUS, and here’s more from CREW on the case.
Category Archives: Supreme Court
“The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn”
I have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Georgetown Law Journal Online). Here is the abstract:
The United States Supreme Court’s conservative majority has taken the Court’s election jurisprudence on a pro-partisanship turn which gives political actors freer range to… Continue reading
Koch Bros. Reportedly Helped Fund Buckley v. Valeo Litigation to Start Early Attack on Campaign Finance Laws
Lisa Graves oped in The Guardian.
“The Alarming Prospect of the Supreme Court Deciding the 2020 Election; If the country’s nine justices wind up deciding the presidential race, things could get very ugly very quickly”
I have written this piece for The Atlantic, part of the rollout of my new book, Election Meltdown. It begins:
Among the many strange and worrying truths about American elections, one has a tendency to get lost: The path… Continue reading
“Taking Stock Of The Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision, 10 Years Later”
Listen to NPR’s On Point:
It’s been 10 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Citizens United. We’ll look back at the last decade and take stock of the fallout.
Guests
Carrie Levine, senior reporter at the Center… Continue reading
“How Citizens United Led Directly to Trump’s Impeachment”
Brendan Fischer for Slate.
“Citizens United turns 10 today. Here’s what we’ve learned about dark money.”
Abby Wood for The Monkey Cage.
“The Decade of Citizens United”
Reupping this Slate piece of mine that ran in December, on what the opinion has meant in the last decade:
In 2010, the largest reported individual contributors to federal campaigns in American politics were Robert and Doylene Perry, owners of… Continue reading
“Celebrate the Citizens United Decade; The ruling has empowered small-dollar donors and political outsiders, not corporations.”
“Citizens United at 10”
Covered on the Business Scholarship Podcast.
“Revisiting Campaign Finance Regulation 10 Years After Citizens United”
Video:
ACS held a panel discussion on the state of campaign finance on January 16, 2020. Titled “Revisiting Campaign Finance Regulation 10 Years After Citizens United,” the event featured Jason Abel, Lee Goodman, Chisun Lee, and Ciara Torres-Spelliscy and… Continue reading
“Citizens United After 10 Years: More Speech, Better Democracy”
Scott Blackburn analysis for IFS.
“Trump judicial adviser’s ‘dark money’ network hides Supreme Court spending”
From the Center for Responsive Politics:
A secretive network spending millions of dollars to confirm President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks terminated multiple 501(c)(4) nonprofit nodes last year while funneling money to an even more opaque limited-liability company,… Continue reading
Steve Bainbridge on Delaware Judges’ Case at U.S. Supreme Court
WLF:
What is the judicial role? Are judges mere umpires who call balls and strikes based solely on rules made by others? Or are judges lawmakers in their own right, creating laws and making public policy? The U.S. Supreme… Continue reading