Category: Const Law Issues

DISCLOSE Act mark up set for Thursday: CU there?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 18, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues

The Committee on House Administration announced that there will be a mark up for the DISCLOSE Act on Thursday, 1 p.m., 1310 Longworth.

Meet the Press and Schumer and Gregory

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 18, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues

Althouse wasn’t too impressed with Sen. Schumer’s performance on Meet the Press (or David Gregory’s). They discussed Citizens United and her take is here.

Washington Times takes on Kagan’s free speech views

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 18, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues

This Washington Times editorial discusses Elena Kagan’s views on the First Amendment. These government-favoring ideas on speech mirror a government-centric view of … well, of everything. In a footnote in that 1996 essay, Ms. Kagan wrote that restrictions on corporate speech were based “on the ground that corporate wealth derives from privileges bestowed on corporations […]