Category: Const Law Issues

The Times, in this editorial, opines on what may happen if Austin is overruled in Citizens United. If the court races to overturn federal and state laws, and its well-established precedents, to free up corporations to drown elections in money, it will be swinging for the fences. The American public will be the losers.

Roll Call looks at Citizens United and tomorrow’s Supreme Court argument in the case. Laurence Gold, a campaign finance lawyer with the labor federation AFL-CIO, agreed that a high court decision to strike down Austin may mean more tools in the chest for organized labor and other groups during the election season. If trade groups […]

The Post’s E.J. Dionne discusses Citizens United in this editorial today. The full impact of what the court could do in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has only begun to receive the attention it deserves. Even the word “radical” does not capture the extent to which the justices could turn our political system upside […]