Category: Courts & Cases

Citizens United front and center in Kagan nomination

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 11, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

UtI notes the prominence Citizens United will play in President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

Kagan on the Court: Adding to majority favoring political speech?

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 11, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

President Obama mentioned campaign finance in introducing Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Last year, in the Citizens United case, she defended bipartisan campaign finance reform against special interests seeking to spend unlimited money to influence our elections. Despite long odds of success, with most legal analysts believing the government was unlikely to prevail in this […]

It’s Kagan

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 10, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

President Obama is expected to nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court today. When Ms. Kagan became United States solicitor general, the federal government’s top appellate lawyer, in March 2009, she had argued no cases in the United States Supreme Court and had, indeed, just recently become a member of its bar. Six months later, […]