NVRI has posted this press release on the Vermont spending limits case. It begins: “- A broad coalition of United States Senators, state attorneys general, former US Senators Bill Bradley and Alan Simpson, and others filed a series of legal briefs today urging the United States Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of Vermont’s limits on campaign spending. The filings set the stage for the nation’s highest court to revisit its 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo, which struck down congressional campaign spending limits on First Amendment grounds.” The news release promises that the briefs supporting cert. filed in the Supreme Court will be posted online. I’ll provide a link when they are posted.
It will be interesting to see if the Court takes any actions on these petitions before its summer recess. I’ve noted earlier that I think a cert. grant is very likely, except that there’s a procedural wrinkle in the case. UPDATE: Tom Goldstein responds here.