Today the Supreme Court will hear reargument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. To read and hear what happened check for the transcript and an audio file at the Court’s website after the argument is finished.
Category: Const Law Issues
HLOGA Lawsuit Dismissed
An appeals court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the National Association of Manufacturers challenging provisions of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act today. BLT has the report and the opinion is here. More than fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that the public disclosure of “who is being hired, who is putting up […]
Citizens United and Precedent
The Post discusses Citizens United in this editorial today. Citizens United ought to have been allowed to distribute “Hillary: The Movie” any way it chose; this is just the sort of political speech that the First Amendment was designed to protect. But those protections can be upheld without eroding the prohibition on corporate-funded campaign advertising. […]