BNA: “The government has responded to a challenge to the federal law against foreigners’ providing money in U.S. election campaigns with a new motion asking the Supreme Court to dismiss the case or affirm a lower court ruling that… Continue reading
Following up on this post, here is the IJ brief and here is the brief of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the National Immigrant Justice Center (authored by Viet Dinh).
So reports BNA on the Bluman case (I have not seen the IJ brief supporting an order for the Court to note probable jurisdiction). The government’s response in this case is currently due Nov. 2.
BNA reports. A snippet:
If the Supreme Court allows the lower court decision in Bluman to stand, lower courts and legislatures would conclude that the high court “did not truly mean” what it said in Citizens United, the challengers… Continue reading
In my Slate column on the foreign spending ban, I predicted that the Supreme Court, if faced with the issue, would blink and hold the campaign finance law barring foreign spending on U.S. elections to be constitutional even though… Continue reading