Breaking: SCOTUS Won’t Hear Delaware Campaign Disclosure Case, as Justice Thomas Dissents

The Supreme Court refused today to hear another challenge to a campaign finance disclosure law in the Delaware Strong Families case. Justice Alito would have heard the case. Justice Thomas issued a dissent from the cert denial, arguing the Court should take the case to hold that the government interest in providing information to voters can never justify a campaign finance law.

 

This is cert denial shows that campaign finance disclosure laws remain on strong constitutional footing. The holes in our disclosure laws are the fault of Congress, the FEC, and the IRS.

This is good news for supporters of strong disclosure, though the Delaware law was quite strict.

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