Linda Greenhouse spins the Citizens United rumor mill in this piece in today’s Times. In placing two major recent precedents in question and setting off a mid-summer scramble to file supplemental briefs and prepare for an unnecessarily expedited argument, the court cheated the public of the full airing that the complex questions merit. Just as […]
Category: Const Law Issues
EMILY’s List news of the day
The District Court’s Nov. 30, 2009 Final Order (above) vacated the regulations challenged in EMILY’s List. The Solicitor General will not seek cert in EMILY’s List, according to SCOTUSBlog. The Federal Election Commission addressed the challenged regulations at its public meeting today.
The Times and the First Amendment rights of government employees
This Times editorial discusses a case involving the First Amendment rights of a government employee. Government employees do not forfeit their right to comment on matters of public interest. The Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 1968 case that a public-school teacher had a First Amendment right to write a letter to the editor, as […]