Category: Const Law Issues

Citizens United Briefs

Supplemental briefs are in for the Citizens United case.  The government’s is here and Rick Hasen has Citizens United’s here. According to the docket, the government filed a motion for divided argument on July 23.  ScotusBlog has more on that here.  It asks the Justices to grant 10 minutes of the United States’ argument time to […]

Public Financing Issues

Visiting Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission David Mason wrote this article for the latest edition of The Federalist Society’s Engage. In an era of broad-based Internet fundraising, public financing begins to look like a cure in search of a disease. Even worse, the super-subsidies required to […]