Category: Const Law Issues

Legal analysis: President Barack Obama (HLS ’91) v. Mr. Nicholas Joy (HLS ’11 expected)

So, which Harvard Law product is a more careful student of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission? President Obama: With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests –- including foreign corporations –- to spend without […]

Head of Fair Political Practices Commission says Citizens United “idiotic”

The LA Times reports: The most polite thing one can say about this thesis is that it’s frightfully naive. But let Ross Johnson, the chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, and a conservative former Republican legislative leader from Orange County, expound: “It’s an idiotic decision that defies logic to presume that a corporation […]