Ten years ago today a campaign finance reform failed for the fourth straight year. Here’s The Times’s 1999 report. The campaign finance measure, sponsored by Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, would ban so-called soft money, the unlimited and unregulated donations to political parties, as opposed to […]
Category: Const Law Issues
Citizens United opinion announcement roulette
SCOTUSblog‘s Tom Goldstein was named GQ’s 45th “most powerful” person in DC. Therefore, head over there to find out if the Supreme Court’s opinion in Citizens United was announced because HasAustinBeenOverruled.com won’t be updated until much later in the day (whenever that is) the opinion comes out.
Honest services again in the news
The Post reports that the Supreme Court granted cert in a case involving honest services fraud. The court is as likely to be interested in the question that Skilling’s case raises about the honest services statute, which gives wide leeway for federal prosecutors to go after actions of public and private officials who deprive constituents […]