The Post reports that The James Madison Center for Freedom of Speech’s James Bopp filed a request with the Federal Election Commission that the agency remove certain regulations in light of Citizens United. The request is here. I don’t see it on the FEC’s website, as of the time of this writing. The agency’s website […]
Category: Const Law Issues
Reports from the D.C. Circuit and Speechnow
Today’s oral argument in Speechnow generated a number of interesting reports (and even a few tweets). SCOTUSBlog gives a good overview of the morning’s argument.
Citizens United and express advocacy: Footnote 8 v. Footnote 52
The Stevens dissent in Citizens United explains: If there was ever any significant uncertainty about what counts as the functional equivalent of express advocacy, there has been little doubt about what counts as express advocacy since the “magic words” test of Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1, 44, n. 52 (1976) (per curiam). Footnote […]