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SCOTUSBlog has a bunch. Ben Heineman writes Hidden Expenditures After Citizens United. The Nation offers Citizens United after Citizens United....
Posted in Election Law on July 30, 2010 09:12 AM
Justice Scalia Comments on the Citizens United Decision
Speaking at the Museum of the Rockies: "During a question-and-answer session following his speech, Scalia defended [CU]. He said big corporations "don't give a darn" and give to both parties. Furthermore, he added, corporations are groups of individuals who are...
Posted in Election Law on July 29, 2010 09:19 PM
The People for the American Way blog offers The Consequences of Citizens United. Paul Hogarth and Eric Alterman comment on the filibuster of the DISCLOSE Act. And this morning the Shareholder Protection Act H.R. 4790 passed the House Financial Services...
Posted in Election Law on July 29, 2010 11:35 AM
"Capuano's Response to Citizens United Nears Approval Amid Strong Opposition"
BNA reports that Rep. "Capuano's Shareholder Protection Act (H.R. 4790) would amend the 1934 Securities Exchange Act to mandate that companies allow their shareholders to approve political expenditures through an annual vote. The committee is scheduled to vote on the...
Posted in Election Law on July 29, 2010 09:10 AM
Norm Ornstein on Karl Rove and DISCLOSE
Ornstein: "I am not eager to see the 501(c)4 loophole used in the next 100 days to allow secret fat cats, corporations and unions to flood the zone with vicious ads. But that would be a small price to pay...
Posted in Election Law on July 28, 2010 02:32 PM
"What's Next After Citizens United?"
The Daily Journal offers this report....
Posted in Election Law on July 26, 2010 08:40 PM
"Obama Slams GOP on DISCLOSE Act"
The Hill offers this report. I've put a transcript of the President's remarks below the fold....
Posted in Election Law on July 26, 2010 12:58 PM
Eliza thinks there's little chance the bill passes when it comes up for a vote, likely this week. CQ Politics says at this point it is all about drawing contrasts between Democrats and Republicans. What a shame that moderate Republicans...
Posted in Election Law on July 26, 2010 09:05 AM
"Disclosures About Disclosure"
Lloyd Mayer has posted this draft (forthcoming, Indiana Law Review) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: An often overlooked aspect of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Citizens United v. FEC is the sharply contrasting factual accounts regarding disclosure of...
Posted in Election Law on July 20, 2010 07:05 PM
It's Not Citizen Kane. It's Not Even Citizens United.
A CU Debate Trailer that will win no Oscars....
Posted in Election Law on July 16, 2010 12:35 PM
"Citizens United and the Myth of a Conservative Corporate America"
This is fascinating. I'll be interested to hear what others think of these data and this methodology....
Posted in Election Law on July 12, 2010 05:16 PM
2010 Supplement to Election Law---Cases and Materials (Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji)
Following up on this post, for those instructors out there who use the Lowenstein, Hasen and Tokaji casebook, Election Law--Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2008), the 2010 supplement is on its way to the printer and should be shipping to...
Posted in Election Law on July 12, 2010 02:48 PM
Why Wasn't Citizens United a 9-0 Decision in Favor of Citizens United?
This is my first in a series of posts in which I will highlight some interesting, though somewhat "inside baseball," posts about campaign finance and legislation issues in the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Most of these observations appear...
Posted in Election Law on July 8, 2010 02:10 PM
"If Citizens United is considered by the Federal Election Commission to be a press entity exempt from all campaign finance laws, it's difficult to imagine a political advocacy organization that wouldn't be exempt in the eyes of the current FEC."...
Posted in Election Law on July 6, 2010 07:40 AM
"Keeping Tax-Subsidized Corporate Money Out of Politics"
My Loyola colleague Ted Seto has written this article for Tax Analysts. Here is the abstract: Citizens United poses a special threat to the integrity of the U.S. tax system. The article identifies the special nature of the problem and...
Posted in Election Law on July 5, 2010 07:35 AM
"SEC UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS PAY-TO-PLAY RULE"
Covington and Burling has issued this e-Lert about an important development at the SEC. They also recently issued this e-Lert, which begins: "Notwithstanding the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Citizens United, our clients are finding that the election law landscape...
Posted in Election Law on July 2, 2010 11:30 AM
"Campaign Finance Shaped 2009-10 Term"
This USA Today article begins: "After nine months and 73 decisions, the Supreme Court's newly concluded 2009-10 term is defined by single case whose continuing political ramifications were on display this week in Senate hearings for Elena Kagan. Citizens United...
Posted in Election Law on July 1, 2010 09:30 PM
the Court ordered reargument in Citizens United. My Slate piece that day was entitled The Supreme Court Gets Ready to Turn on the Corporate Fundraising Spigot. (My follow-up after decision is here.)...
Posted in Election Law on June 29, 2010 12:31 PM
"Roberts Put His Stamp on Supreme Court in Latest Term"
Adam Liptak's must-read end of term wrap up begins: Last June, the Supreme Court term ended with restraint and a cliffhanger, as the court left the Voting Rights Act intact and ordered re-argument in Citizens United, the big campaign finance...
Posted in Election Law on June 29, 2010 12:12 PM
Senator Hatch Asks SG Kagan About Citizens United
Watching the hearings now. Her first answer as to whether she agreed with the case was not direct, stating that she always convinces herself of the correctness of a case when she argues it. She now seems to defend it...
Posted in Election Law on June 29, 2010 07:59 AM
Breaking News: Supreme Court Summarily Affirms in RNC Case: What This Means for the Future
The Court's order reads: "09-1287 REPUBLICAN NAT. COMM., ET AL. V. FEC, ET AL. The judgment is affirmed. Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas would note probable jurisdiction and set the case for oral argument." A "summary affirmance" means...
Posted in Election Law on June 29, 2010 07:09 AM
Justice Thomas Takes Swipe at Tillman in His Gun Case Concurrence Today
Robbin Stewart points me to footnote 22 of Justice Thomas's concurring opinion in McDonald: Tillman went on to a long career as South Carolina's Governor and, later, United States Senator. Tillman's contributions to campaign finance law have been discussed in...
Posted in Election Law on June 28, 2010 04:22 PM
Watch the Video of Hasen, Raskin, Shapiro and Simpson Debate Citizens United
Here is the video of the debate held last week as part of American University Washington College of Law's Summer Institute on Law and Government....
Posted in Election Law on June 26, 2010 08:09 PM
Doe v. Reed: When and What Will Happen?
There are eleven cases left for the Supreme Court to decide this term, but three of them relate to the "honest services" question. There will be decisions tomorrow and Monday. From what I'm hearing, the term is likely to end...
Posted in Election Law on June 23, 2010 08:16 PM
SCOTUSBlog Offers "Issue Briefing" on Citizens United and SG Kagan
See here....
Posted in Election Law on June 22, 2010 04:18 PM
"Obama trying to seal deal on campaign finance legislation"
The Hill offers this report. The White House statement referred to in the article reads: "The Administration strongly supports House passage of H.R. 5175. The Administration believes the DISCLOSE Act is a necessary measure so that Americans will know who...
Posted in Election Law on June 21, 2010 07:00 PM
"Debate: Citizens United, Republic Divided; Campaign Finance Law After Citizens United"
Jamie Raskin, Ilya Shapiro, Steve Simpson, and I will be discussing this issue over lunch at an event at American University on June 24 from 12:15 to 1:15 pm. Steve Wermiel will moderate, and lunch will be served. The event...
Posted in Election Law on June 16, 2010 10:22 PM
"House Democrats reach deal on campaign spending exemptions for businesses, other groups"
The Washington Post offers this report. Ken Vogel tweets about the NRA's change of heart on Citizens United. I agree with those who have suggested that if this exemption remains in the DISCLOSE Act, it makes its constitutionality less certain....
Posted in Election Law on June 15, 2010 07:39 AM
Should the Press Exemption Be Read More Narrowly in Light of Citizens United?
FEC Commissioner Walther thinks so....
Posted in Election Law on June 14, 2010 07:47 AM
for naming Citizens United and the Illusion of Coherence its Download of the Week....
Posted in Election Law on June 14, 2010 07:39 AM
Citizens United Gets the Press Exemption for Some of Its Activities
SCOTUSBlog has the details. More from BNA ($). Unfortunately, I am so swamped right now, I don't have time to read the FEC opinion or comment on it, but hope to at some point....
Posted in Election Law on June 11, 2010 12:11 PM
The American Interest on Citizens United
The July/August issue of the non-partisan quarterly, The American Interest, is now available. It has three articles on Citizens United, and through these links you'll be able to read them without a subscription (but do consider subscribing!). Here are the...
Posted in Election Law on June 9, 2010 07:49 AM
Ciara Torres-Spellicsy has written this oped ($) for the NY Law Journal....
Posted in Election Law on June 8, 2010 07:30 AM
Citizens United and Union Money
Don't miss this Mother Jones article (via Ben Smith)....
Posted in Election Law on June 7, 2010 10:22 AM
"Citizens United and the Illusion of Coherence"
I have posted this draft on SSRN. It is very much a first draft. I'll be presenting this at an APSA panel at the end of August and submitting to law reviews. So I still have plenty of time to...
Posted in Election Law on June 7, 2010 08:41 AM
The Kagan Files, Campaign Finance, and Political Self-Interest
Many have speculated on the views of SG Kagan on campaign finance issues, with claims of everything from her being a book banner to a free speech zealot. There has not been much to go on beyond her 1996 Chicago...
Posted in Election Law on June 4, 2010 02:13 PM
"Citizens United: The Aftermath"
Monica Youn of the Brennan Center has posted this ACS issue brief....
Posted in Election Law on June 4, 2010 12:44 PM
I have just written this Jurisprudence column for Slate. It begins: To hear Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tell it, if Solicitor General Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she just may be ready to authorize the...
Posted in Election Law on May 24, 2010 09:23 AM
The Campaign Legal Center has produced this extensive canvass of post-CU campaign finance challenges. Part of the canvass strongly critiques the James Madison Center and the Center for Competitive Politics. CCP issues this strong response....
Posted in Election Law on May 21, 2010 08:42 PM
Ninth Circuit, on 3-0 Vote, Upholds Matching Funds Requirement in Arizona Public Financing Scheme
You can find the court's opinion, including a concurrence by Judge Kleinfeld, here. In this post -Citizens United world, this is a rare win for supporters of reasonable campaign finance regulation. The opinion from Judge Tashima does a very good...
Posted in Election Law on May 21, 2010 12:17 PM
President's Statement on Passage of DISCLOSE Act in House Committee
"Today, the House Administration Committee took another important step toward putting in place critical protections to control the flood of special interest money into American elections. The DISCLOSE Act, now moving to debate on the floor of the House of...
Posted in Election Law on May 20, 2010 03:50 PM
2010 Supplement to Election Law---Cases and Materials (Lowenstein, Hasen, and Tokaji)
For those instructors out there who use the Lowenstein, Hasen and Tokaji casebook, Election Law--Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2008), there will be a 2010 supplement, available later this summer, which will be up to date through the end of...
Posted in Election Law on May 19, 2010 11:01 AM
How Unusual Was It for SG Kagan to Comment on Citizens United With Senator Specter?
AP says that she broke with tradition in so commenting. It will be very interesting to watch now if she walks the remark back, or if she is forthcoming about other issues as well....
Posted in Election Law on May 17, 2010 09:59 PM
"McConnell Attacks Kagan Over Citizens United"
See here....
Posted in Election Law on May 16, 2010 03:46 PM
"On Speech, Kagan Leaned Toward Conservatives"
The NY Times offers this report, its second report devoting considerable attention to SG Kagan's views of campaign finance and Citizens United....
Posted in Election Law on May 15, 2010 08:44 PM
SG Kagan, in Discussion with Sen. Specter, Speaks of More Deference to Congress in Criticizing CU
This is interesting: Emerging from a 30-minute closed-door meeting in his office, Specter said Kagan was "forthcoming" during their talk, saying she sided with him on several issues, most notably her concern about the Supreme Court’s decision this year in...
Posted in Election Law on May 13, 2010 01:14 PM
"Citizens United v. FEC: The fear factor"
Bob Edgar has written this Miami Herald oped....
Posted in Election Law on May 12, 2010 10:20 PM
CCP on SG Kagan's Campaign Finance Views
See here. Here's the upshot: Given these memos, though, along with President Obama's strong words on Citizens United (citing it as a central reason he tapped Kagan), it's fair to assume that Kagan will approach campaign finance issues from the...
Posted in Election Law on May 12, 2010 12:37 PM
Administration Official Tells WSJ Why SG Kagan Abandoned the Austin Rationale in the CU Argument
According to this article, which will appear in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal, an administration official explained the strategy of SG Kagan to abandon the Austin antidistortion rationale as follows: "It was a conscious decision not to push a pet Thurgood...
Posted in Election Law on May 11, 2010 04:55 PM
Jeffrey Clements Responds to Citizens United's Attack on SG Kagan for Her Advocacy in the CU Case
See here....
Posted in Election Law on May 11, 2010 04:32 PM
"SG Kagan and the Citizens United Case: What We Know (and What We Don't)"
I have written this guest post for the ACS Blog. It responds to this Balkinization post by Marvin Ammori....
Posted in Election Law on May 10, 2010 02:44 PM
With the news confirmed that President Obama will be nominating SG Kagan to the Supreme Court, I thought I'd reflect on what we know about Judge Kagan's views about election law. Here's what we know: Virtually nothing, especially compared to...
Posted in Election Law on May 9, 2010 09:41 PM
"The Perils of Citizens United"
Karl Sandstrom and Jonathan Berkon have written this Executive Counsel article....
Posted in Election Law on May 4, 2010 07:58 AM
Pernicious Footnote in the Ninth Circuit Long Beach Case
It does not surprise me that lower courts are following the deregulatory agenda of the Supreme Court in the campaign finance area. For example, it did not surprise me (though it did disappoint me) that in the new Ninth Circuit...
Posted in Election Law on May 3, 2010 02:20 PM
Adam Liptak's New NYT "Sidebar" Column on RNC Soft Money Case: Another View
You can read the interesting column here. I have two observations about the case and the column. 1. Adam thinks the Supreme Court is "quite likely to hear the case, perhaps even over the summer." I am not so sure....
Posted in Election Law on May 3, 2010 11:40 AM
"Contrary to Citizens United Opinion, Campaign Contribution Records Lack Transparency"
ProPublica offers this very interesting report....
Posted in Election Law on May 3, 2010 11:21 AM
"ALERT: House and Senate Respond to Citizens United Ruling"
Caplin & Drysdale analyze....
Posted in Election Law on April 30, 2010 05:42 PM
"Crush Democracy But Save the Kittens: Justice Alito's Double Standard for the First Amendment"
My new Slate Jurisprudence column begins: Since joining the Supreme Court in 2006, Justice Samuel Alito has been the main judicial roadblock to sensible campaign-finance laws. By equating money spent on elections with free speech and expression, in the name...
Posted in Election Law on April 30, 2010 07:44 AM
"MONEY AND POLITICS: New Citizens United Legislation Would Enhance Powers of Parties"
This blog post at the Center for Public Integrity's blog points out one of the more interesting features of the DISCLOSE Act....
Posted in Election Law on April 29, 2010 03:12 PM
Surprise! Ted Olson doesn't like it. CREW does. (I wonder if the author of the press release knows that it closes with a quote of language (in MCFL, then Austin) that the Court specifically disapproved in Citizens United.) Democracy 21...
Posted in Election Law on April 29, 2010 02:34 PM
After the earlier silence of the unions about DISCLOSE, this statement from Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO could mark a turn toward it: Congressional leaders today took a vitally important first step to begin to address the Supreme Court's recent...
Posted in Election Law on April 29, 2010 02:29 PM
"Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission - Podcast"
Steve Simpson of the Institute for Justice and I recently recorded this 50-minute podcast for the Federalist Society debating the Citizens United case. Eugene Volokh of UCLA moderated the discussion. I very much enjoyed this discussion, and I hope listeners...
Posted in Election Law on April 28, 2010 08:38 PM
"Citizens UnitedRuling Will Benefit Unions In Campaign Financing, ABA Speaker Says"
Ken Gross via BNA ($) on CU....
Posted in Election Law on April 27, 2010 06:09 AM
The Latest on Schumer-van Hollen
The Hill offers Unions wait to see Citizens United 'fix'. That newspaper also reports that Senator Snowe is unlikely to co-sponsor the measure. Eliza Newlin Carney writes "Schumer, Van Hollen Walking A Tightrope. And CCP offers Progressives Divided on DISCLOSE....
Posted in Election Law on April 26, 2010 08:15 AM
The Court's order is here. On RTAO, the Court's order reads: 09-724 REAL TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA, INC. V. FEC, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to...
Posted in Election Law on April 26, 2010 08:04 AM
Two Great Election Law Events in NYC
What could be as good as this Stanford alumni event on Citizens United with Becerra, Bopp, Persily and Sullivan (moderated by Lithwick)? Perhaps this panel at the Cardozo "Acknowledging Race" conference on Voting and Democratic Participation with Charles, Fuentes-Rohwer, Gerken,...
Posted in Election Law on April 23, 2010 06:07 PM
"Bill Responding to Citizens United Ruling Still Needs More Support From Republicans"
BNA reports....
Posted in Election Law on April 21, 2010 07:17 AM
"The Nine Lives of Buckley v. Valeo"
I have just posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, FIRST AMENDMENT STORIES, Richard W. Garnett and Andrew Koppelman, eds., Foundation Press 2010). Here is the abstract: Buckley v. Valeo has been the leading case governing the constitutionality of campaign finance...
Posted in Election Law on April 20, 2010 03:30 PM
President Obama, CJ Roberts, and CU
From this NYT "Week in Review" analysis: The urgency is greater this year since the Citizens United decision in January, in which the Roberts court threw out precedents to rule that corporations have First Amendment rights to spend money in...
Posted in Election Law on April 18, 2010 09:47 PM
"Citizens United Response To Be Very Limited, Will More Meaningful Reforms Follow?"
Don't miss Stuart Whatley's analysis (including interviews with Richard Briffault and Michael Malbin) on CU "fixes."...
Posted in Election Law on April 16, 2010 02:22 PM
Sunlight Keeps Pushing for a Strong Response to Citizens United. Business Ethics issues a progress report. NY considers new legislation. Marketwatch looks at investor views on disclosure....
Posted in Election Law on April 16, 2010 08:10 AM
Will SG Kagan Seek Supreme Court Review in SpeechNow? Is It Too Late?
This morning's New York Times story on SG Kagan talked about how she handled the last campaign finance case before the Supreme Court: Citizens United. But I've been wondering how she's going to handle the next campaign finance case potentially...
Posted in Election Law on April 15, 2010 05:14 PM
"Money Talks But it Isn't Speech"
Deborah Hellman has posted this draft on SSRN (Minnesota Law Review). Here is the abstract: This Article challenges the central premise of our campaign finance law, namely that restrictions on giving and spending money constitute restrictions on speech and thus...
Posted in Election Law on April 15, 2010 08:34 AM
"Citizens United Foes Seek a McCain Stand-In"
Will John McCain support a filibuster of the Schumer-van Hollen bill to impose some new corporate restrictions after Citizens United? Roll Call asks the question. It also asks, if not Sen. McCain supporting a vote on the bill, then which...
Posted in Election Law on April 14, 2010 05:22 PM
"Iowa Passes Corporate Governance Fixes to Citizens United"
See here....
Posted in Election Law on April 14, 2010 05:09 PM
"GOP warns president against Supreme Court litmus test on Citizens United"
The Hill offers this report....
Posted in Election Law on April 14, 2010 07:25 AM
" The Cost of 'Free Speech' in 'Citizens United' for Black Candidates"
Olympia Duhart has written this opinion piece for The Defender....
Posted in Election Law on April 14, 2010 07:20 AM
"Democrats take aim at court conservatives"
This Politico piece quotes an Obama spokesman as saying that "Citizens United 'is the most high-profile case in the last couple of years, and there's no question, in my judgment, that the issue will be raised one way or another...
Posted in Election Law on April 13, 2010 08:34 AM
I have just written this piece for Slate. It begins: Headlines blare that a battle looms over the nomination of a replacement for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens--a battle, likely to get ugly, in which Republicans have not ruled...
Posted in Election Law on April 12, 2010 02:48 PM
" Legislature's response to Citizens United v. FEC now law"
IowaPolitics.com reports....
Posted in Election Law on April 8, 2010 09:19 PM
Sam Issacharoff has written this article ($) for American Lawyer, suggesting that "The Hatch Act scheme could be broadened to include corporations who receive government contracts or subsidies. Those corporations could be prohibited from using institutional funds to attempt to...
Posted in Election Law on April 7, 2010 05:54 PM
Miriam Galston has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life (2007) and Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (2010), the United States Supreme Court dramatically reduced the ability of...
Posted in Election Law on April 7, 2010 09:51 AM
My new Slate Jurisprudence column begins: If you thought things have gotten bad with campaign financing since the Supreme Court turned on the corporate money spigot in the Citizens United case, you ain't seen nothing yet. Opponents of reasonable regulation...
Posted in Election Law on April 6, 2010 08:27 AM
"Does Money Talk in the Marketplace of Ideas?"
Stanley Fish's "Opinionator" column for NYTimes.com begins: "Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo once said that 'metaphors in law are to be narrowly watched, for starting as devices to liberate thought, they end often by enslaving it.' Cardozo's warning would seem...
Posted in Election Law on April 6, 2010 08:14 AM
San Diego's Opening 9th Circuit Brief in Thalheimer v. City of San Diego
Today co-counsel and I filed this brief in the 9th Circuit, arguing against a district court order (1) preliminarily enjoining the City's law barring individual (>$500) and non-individual (i.e., corporate, union, etc.) contributions to independent expenditure committees and (2) preliminarily...
Posted in Election Law on April 2, 2010 01:52 PM
WaPo on Citizens United and the media exemption. Lisa Gilbert on shareholder protection. The Hill on CU and first-quarter fundraising reports. Justin Fox on CU and the founding fathers. And CCP has put together this April 8 event that looks...
Posted in Election Law on April 1, 2010 10:09 AM
The Boston Globe offers this editorial. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy asks WWJBD? And Citizens United now wants the media exemption from disclosure of certain of its activities....
Posted in Election Law on March 30, 2010 11:34 AM
Aprill: Tax Code Denies Business Deductions for Political Expenditures
Following up on this post, my colleague Ellen Aprill offers these thoughts: The basic rule is that lobbying and political expenditures must come out of after-tax money (not pre-tax, that is, not deductible, money). There is a narrow exception to...
Posted in Election Law on March 25, 2010 11:47 AM
Fred Wertheimer comments....
Posted in Election Law on March 18, 2010 03:30 PM
"Citizens United to stop the Citizens [who are] United Against Citizens United"
David Post blogs....
Posted in Election Law on March 16, 2010 10:49 PM
CRS has issued a report, "Legislative Options After Citizens United v. FEC: Constitutional and Legal Issues." Ciara Torres-Spelliscy has written this Roll Call oped, "Shareholder Consent is Key in Political Spending." The CLC Blog offers Three Scenarios Now Possible on...
Posted in Election Law on March 16, 2010 10:26 AM
"Citizens United and Congressional Earmarks"
David Gans blogs....
Posted in Election Law on March 15, 2010 09:38 PM
AP offers Legislatures Push Back Against Campaign Ruling. Jeff Toobin's New Yorker article on Justice Stevens contains the following paragraph: "I asked him if the center of gravity had moved to the right since he became a Justice. 'There's no...
Posted in Election Law on March 15, 2010 07:34 AM
The Money and Politics Report ($) offers FEC Republicans Issue New Statement Siding With McCain in Enforcement Cases (about this statement from the Republican commissioners which seems to water down the McCain-Feingold soft money solicitation ban) and States Revisiting, Redrafting...
Posted in Election Law on March 13, 2010 02:23 PM
Jim Bopp to Be Booted Again in Supreme Court Election Case?
Jim Bopp has been the attorney in the RNC v. FEC litigation. But NBC now reports that "if the RNC loses [before the three judge court], it will ask Olson to represent them in a Supreme Court challenge." Jim is...
Posted in Election Law on March 12, 2010 02:05 PM
See here....
Posted in Election Law on March 11, 2010 08:32 PM
"Organized Labor and Citizens United"
Steven J. Law of the Chamber has written this WSJ oped....
Posted in Election Law on March 10, 2010 08:32 PM
Here. It appears Brad Smith led to some freaking out at the hearing today....
Posted in Election Law on March 10, 2010 12:34 PM
"To Fix the Supreme Court's Citizens United Decision, Copy the Brits"
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes this US News opinion piece....
Posted in Election Law on March 9, 2010 11:15 AM
"The Cloud Has Been Lifted" on Corporate Spending Post-CU
Don't miss this LA Times article on the Chamber of Commerce and corporate spending after the Citizens United decision....
Posted in Election Law on March 9, 2010 07:21 AM