Here is my contribution to the NY Times Room for Debate blog. (Joel Gora, Michael Waldman, and Fred Wertheimer are also participating).
I thought it was very interesting that Justice Stevens cited to Justice O’Connor’s work on judicial elections in… Continue reading
The Chair of the Senate Rules Committee says: “This activist and far reaching decision is even worse than we had feared. This opens the floodgates and allows special interest money to overflow our elections and undermine our democracy. The bottom… Continue reading
A point of personal privilege. It is with mixed feelings today that I saw Chief Justice Roberts cited my book in footnote 2 of his concurrence in Citizens United (“2. See also, e.g., R. Hasen, The Supreme Court and Election… Continue reading
SCOTUSblog has a great roundup of news stories and reactions to the decisions here. (That sure saved me a lot of time!)
I think SCOTUSblog missed this statement from Justice at Stake.
I am sure there are many more… Continue reading
My Slate piece with my initial take on the ruling is now posted. It begins:
It is time for everyone to drop all the talk about the Roberts court’s “judicial minimalism,” with Chief Justice Roberts as an “umpire” who… Continue reading
Kennedy writes for Court. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. More coming.
From SCOTUSBlog’s reporting, it sounds like the most likely scenario occurred:
Austin and McConnell (that part dealing with corp. spending limits on “electioneering communications”) are overruled… Continue reading