Category: Const Law Issues

The Post reports. Labor unions have dominated spending on independent campaign ads so far this election season, despite a recent Supreme Court decision that freed spending by corporations, a Washington Post analysis shows.

This editorial in The Times discusses Citizens United and the Supreme Court’s latest term. It was not a thoroughly disappointing term. But the tone and posture of the court’s conservative majority made clear that it is not done asserting itself in redefining campaign finance laws, the rights of corporations, national security powers and the ownership […]

Call it “weird obsession” or something else.  Citizens United has been one of the most prominent Supreme Court decisions in decades.  A Post commentator faults the Judiciary Committee for a “weird obsession” with the case during Elena Kagan’s nomination hearing.