Linda Greenhouse offers this analysis in the New York Times, which begins: “The Supreme Court that upheld the new campaign finance law on Wednesday was a pragmatic court, concerned less with the fine points of constitutional doctrine than with the… Continue reading
See The Color of Money. See also this oped. From the oped: “Despite Wednesday’s high-court ruling, Americans still should be decrying what amounts to a new poll tax: the current system of privately financed election campaigns. Because the system… Continue reading
The Independent (UK) has an article reprinted here. (Thanks to David Ettinger for the pointer.) Howard Bashman collects more articles on the oral argument and the Texas redistricting case here.
Thank God for Howard Bashman. Howard, who was in the Virgin Islands at oral argument, returned last night and linked to almost all of the BCRA news and commentary here and here
In addition, my oped, “Refomers, Cheer While… Continue reading
One final thought tonight: One of the big issues discussed among readers of the lower court opinions (or at least “skimmers” of the 1800 page lower court opinions—I think that there were probably fewer than 100 people not working on… Continue reading