This Times editorial, imploring the Supreme Court against overruling Austin, begins: With a little-noticed order last week, we fear the Supreme Court has set the stage for dismantling the longstanding ban on corporate spending in elections for president and Congress. If those restrictions are overturned, it would be a disaster for democracy.
The Times covers what transpired at the Supreme Court yesterday in Citizens United. “The court is poised to reverse longstanding precedents concerning the rights of corporations to participate in politics,” said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia. “The only reason to ask for reargument on this is if they’re going to overturn Austin and […]
Needless to say, we will not be seeing too many majority opinions in campaign finance cases citing the sober-minded Elihu Root any time soon. With today’s Supreme Court’s announcement that it will rehear argument in Citizens United and the retirement of Justice Souter, the Court is now poised to consider the huge questions of whether […]