The Post discusses Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Citizens United here. With the departure of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, he has become the pivotal player on a court that often divides into Team Roberts — with Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Alito — and Team Stevens: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and rookie Sonia Sotomayor […]
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Globe attacks Supreme Court on corporate personhood
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 […]
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.