The LA Times offers this report, with the subhead: “The council strips the city clerk of her duties when she tries to certify petitions. And it refuses to set an election date. A judge gets the case today.”

See this article.

Robert Samuelson has written this Washington Post column about WRTL. Does Samuelson know the title of his article copies that of Brad Smith’s book on campaign finance deregulation?

I have uploaded it here. You can find my posts on the case, including an argument for why the Court should take the case, here.

Scheduled server maintenance will have the blog, Loyola email, and listservs down July 7 and 8. Blogging will be light this week before that down time.

David Broder has written this Washington Post column, which begins: “If you believe most of the newspaper editorials and the outraged complaints from self-styled reform groups last week, the Supreme Court opened a huge ‘loophole’ in campaign finance law… Continue reading

Brad Smith has written this piece for City Journal.

Eliza Newlin Carney’s latest Rules of the Game column for National Journal begins: “At first glance, the Supreme Court’s recent FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life ruling looks like a fairly narrow bid to ease restrictions on so-called issue ads.… Continue reading

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Via the Brad Blog comes this McClatchy story. Latest incredible statement by Thor Hearne: “Hearne, who also was a vice president and director of election operations for the Republican Lawyers Association, said he couldn’t discuss [ACVR and related organizations]… Continue reading

Lillian BeVier, Full Of Surprises-And More To Come: Randall v Sorrell, The First Amendment, And Campaign Finance Regulation, 2006 Supreme Court Review 173 Stanford Law & Policy Review, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2007, has published a symposium on the law… Continue reading

See here and here.

Bob Bauer has written this new post.

The Indianapolis Star offers this profile of Jim Bopp.