Category: Const Law Issues

Alito on Stevens: Why so dismissive?

Justice Alito cites the Stevens dissent in Citizens United in today’s case about a Latin cross on federal land. Finally, I reject JUSTICE STEVENS’ suggestion that the enactment of the land-transfer law was motivated by an illicit purpose. Id. at 24. I would not be “so dismissive of Congress.” Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm’n, […]