Category: Courts & Cases

Citizens United and judicial elections

This Times editorial argues that Citizens United makes reforming judicial election funding more important. Since retiring, Justice O’Connor has been warning about the threat to judicial independence from big-money state judicial campaigns and attack ads paid for by special interests hoping to influence future court decisions. The Citizens United ruling promises to make that problem […]

Citizens United and foreigners

There’s more reaction to Citizens United and its implications for foreign national involvement in politics here. The court’s majority opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy specifically left for another day ”whether the government has a compelling interest in preventing foreign individuals or associations from influencing our nation’s political process.”