Day: January 23, 2010

Questioning the basis for campaign finance rules?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 23, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

In The Times, of all places. Legal scholars and social scientists say the evidence is meager, at best, that the post-Watergate campaign finance system has accomplished the broad goals its supporters asserted.

Oklahoma conforming to Citizens United

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 23, 2010
Categories In Oklahoma

The Oklahoman reports on efforts to change state law to conform with the holdings of Citizens United. That was fast. After the high court ruling, Ethics Commission staff revised a proposed rule, posting a version by 11 p.m. Thursday that would allow corporations and labor unions to make unlimited independent expenditures from their treasury funds. […]

More Citizens United: resistance is futile

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 23, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

Citizens United is identified as one of the most significant decisions of the Roberts court in this Times piece today. Some corporate leaders are dismayed by Citizens United. They sent the letter through Fair Elections Now, a coalition of good-government groups that has long lobbied Congress to pass legislation establishing public campaign financing. A Senate […]