The web has some information on the author of EMILY’s List v. FEC. Click here for the District Court’s website’s biography of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Wikipedia also has an entry. A previous opinion (finding constitutional BCRA’s electioneering communications provisions), quoting Elihu Root, is familiar to those who follow campaign finance law. Warning, the file is […]
I came across this interesting post at Examiner.com discussing the Supreme Court’s recent campaign finance opinions. So recent decisions by the Supreme Court moving — however incrementally — to favor the First Amendment at the expense of phony “reform” is welcome to anybody who cares about free speech. Courting the public and suffering heckling from […]
The court released its opinion in EMILY’S List v. FEC. The court ruled in the FEC’s favor on joint motions for summary judgment. The case involved allocation regulations and the FEC’s regulation at 11 CFR 100.57 regarding solicitations referencing a federal candidate.