The Center for Individual Freedom filed suit today challenging West Virginia’s requirements for certain issue advertisements. If the result is similar to Carmouche, West Virgnia’s law would be restricted in application.
Category: Const Law Issues
Supremes Reject Appeal
The Citizens United case will not be heard any time soon by the Supremes. Today they rejected, on jursidcitional grounds, the group’s appeal from the lower court’s rejection of the preliminary injunction. SCOTUSBlog, as usual, covers the case in detail. This might mean that the post-WRTL II-electioneering-communications/genuine issue ad environment will not change for the […]
The 1954 Supreme Court’s View on Lobbying Disclosure
In United States v. Harriss, a Supreme Court case in the news because of the recent NAM effort to challenge provisions of HLOGA, the Court discussed lobbying disclosure, as a general matter (citations omitted): Present-day legislative complexities are such that individual members of Congress cannot be expected to explore the myriad pressures to which they […]