Category: Const Law Issues

Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Bradley Smith wrote this Examiner editorial discussing Citizens United.

The Politico reports on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear reargument in Citizens United and other campaign finance developments. Both the public financing and FEC debates, however, are overshadowed by a pending development over which Obama has no control: the Supreme Court’s surprise announcement last week that, in lieu of deciding a relatively narrow case […]

Eliza Newlin Carney’s Rules of the Game column discusses Austin. Oddest of all, however, is that the Supreme Court should set out to roll back campaign restrictions on corporations at a time when their outsized political role is under attack.