Day: September 5, 2009

The Post gives Citizens United coverage front and center treatment today. “If Republicans were wondering how their 2012 presidential candidate is going to compete against President Obama’s $600 million fundraising juggernaut, the Supreme Court seems poised to provide an answer: unlimited corporate spending supporting the Republican candidate, or attacking Obama,” Richard L. Hasen, an election […]

Robert Kaiser (author of So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government) gives us his view on Citizens United in tomorrow’s Post.  This year or next the court could again remake the American system by permitting a flood of corporate money into our electoral campaigns, which are already drenched in […]

SCOTUSBlog has a preview of Citizens United here. It is not at all clear, despite the Court’s reaching out to address ultimate questions about the nature of corporate involvement in politics and the constitutional implications of that, that the case actually will be decided upon such a broad plateau.  If the Court has trouble assembIing […]