This Boston Globe editorial disagrees with the holdings of Citizens United. The full impact of this week’s decision is hard to predict, for changes in the campaign-finance system play out in unpredictable ways. What’s clear now is that the Supreme Court had a choice between protecting the influence of real individuals and maximizing the influence […]
Category: Const Law Issues
Questioning the basis for campaign finance rules?
In The Times, of all places. Legal scholars and social scientists say the evidence is meager, at best, that the post-Watergate campaign finance system has accomplished the broad goals its supporters asserted.
More Citizens United: resistance is futile
Citizens United is identified as one of the most significant decisions of the Roberts court in this Times piece today. Some corporate leaders are dismayed by Citizens United. They sent the letter through Fair Elections Now, a coalition of good-government groups that has long lobbied Congress to pass legislation establishing public campaign financing. A Senate […]