Category: Const Law Issues

The Times’ Adam Liptak discusses recent First Amendment jurisprudence in this analysis. “Buckley is like a rotten tree,” Burt Neuborne, a law professor at New York University, wrote in 1997. “Give it a good, hard push and, like a rotten tree, Buckley will keel over. The only question is in which direction.”

The Detroit News called The DISCLOSE Act a “partisan mess” in this recent editorial.

The Hill reports on broadcasters’ position on The DISCLOSE Act’s lowest unit rate provisions. When asked if he supported the Democratic response to Citizens United a week and a half ago, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told The Hill in a brief interview that he had reservations about the campaign finance reform bill because of concerns […]