Monthly Archives: January 2014
“GOP appeals election-law injunction”
Columbus Dispatch: “Top Republican state officials are appealing a federal judge’s preliminary injunction against a GOP-backed law that would have made it more difficult for minor parties to get on the 2014 ballot.”
Robbin Stewart on New SCOTUS False Speech Caes
Here.
Subpoenas Quashed in Wisconsin John Doe Recall Campaign Finance Investigation
WSJ Ed Board:
Chalk up a big victory for the First Amendment. On Friday a Wisconsin judge struck a major blow for free political speech when he quashed subpoenas to conservative groups and ordered the return of property to… Continue reading
“Bozeman legislative candidate asks court to halt vote-reporting law”
The Missoulian: “A Bozeman legislative candidate has asked a federal court to temporarily block enforcement of a new state law that requires published campaign materials about a legislator’s record to include every vote taken by the lawmaker on that… Continue reading
“In Defense of ‘Super PACs’ and of the First Amendment”
Joel Gora has posed this draft on SSRN (Seton Hall Law Review). Here is the abstract:
This article is a defense of “Super PACs” and of the First Amendment principles that they embody, namely, that we need a robust, wide-open… Continue reading
“U.S. justices agree to hear challenge to Ohio speech law”
Republican FEC Commissioners Issue Statement on Why Crossroads GPS Need Not Register as Political Committee
Key figures in #Bridgegate–Baroni, Samson–also key figures in suit to block Lautenberg replacement of Torricelli
Remember New Jersey Democratic Party v. Samson?
I have an extensive discussion of the case in the Democracy Canon.
Baroni, Forrester’s lawyer, wrote his own article: William E. Baroni, Jr., Administrative Unfeasibility: The Torricelli Replacement Case and the… Continue reading
“Supreme Court to mull right to lie in political ads”
Democratic FEC Commissioners Issue Statement on Why Crossroads GPS Should Register as Political Committee
Here.
“Bitcoin Takes Stage In Texas Senate Campaign”
Breaking: Supreme Court Takes Case Involving False Campaign Speech
Today the Court issued an order granting cert in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus.
The cert. petition raises two questions, the second of which is substantive on the question of false campaign speech laws:
Did the Sixth Circuit… Continue reading