Rob Yablon has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Northwestern University Law Review). Here is the abstract:
While the law governing the electoral process has changed dramatically in the past decade, one thing has stayed the same: Courts and commentators… Continue reading
This letter from Sanders’ lawyer Brad Deutsch (and see this accompanying press release) say there are some “serious apparent violations” of campaign finance law. I’m not so sure that’s right, and suspect this letter is less about legality and… Continue reading
Politico:
Paul Ryan’s massive $17 million fundraising haul this quarter was fueled by some of the nation’s richest people and large corporate political action committees, which cut five- and six-figure checks to the speaker’s burgeoning political operation, according to an… Continue reading
I have now had a chance to review the substantive election law decisions of Judge Merrick Garland that my research assistant and I have identified (listed after the jump). With the caveat that the job of a lower court judge… Continue reading
Roll Call:
Shaun McCutcheon, whose 2014 Supreme Court case opened the door to more money in politics, has a new political cause in Donald Trump.
McCutcheon, an Alabama engineer, was elected this week as a delegate to the Republican National… Continue reading
Larry Norden reviews my new book, Plutocrats United, at the National Book Review. From the review:
Fortunately, it may not be necessary for the Court to fully adopt the equality rationale. Previous majorities of the Court embraced a far… Continue reading
Michael Kent Curtis and Eugene Mazo have posted this draft on SSRN (Kentucky Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
This article deals with several campaign finance decisions of the Roberts Court and tries to place them in a much larger… Continue reading
I know it is late on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, but here’s some very big news. It sounds technical, but it really, really matters.
A federal district court has held that the Louisiana GOP, under the guidance of tenacious… Continue reading
Bauer:
In judging the Robert’s Court record on campaign finance, Rick Hasen finds that progressives have little to cheer about, except that it might have been worse. He looks into the reasons why the Court majority has moved more… Continue reading