Citizens United Behind the Scenes
While the world awaits the Court’s ruling in The Affordable Care Act Cases with bated breath, Jeffrey Toobin takes a fascinating look at the behind the scenes wrangling during the Court’s review of...
View ArticleCourt to Review Campaign Finance Limits
Case: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission On February 19, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear argument in a case challenging some of the contribution limits in federal campaign finance...
View ArticleComing Up At The Court – McCutcheon v. FEC
Case: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission Campaign financing is a touchy subject, pitting concerns about free speech against concerns about the corrupting and other negative effects of money in...
View ArticleInside the Case: McCutcheon v. FEC
Case: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission The case McCutcheon v. FEC will be argued on Tuesday, October 8. This is the biggest campaign finance reform case since Citizens United was decided in...
View ArticleMcCutcheon v. FEC: Behind the Decision
On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court decided McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, ruling that aggregate limits on campaign contributions were unconstitutional. Professor Sanford Greenberg of IIT...
View ArticleThis Day in Supreme Court History—April 26, 1978
On this day in 1978, the Supreme Court decided First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, a seminal case involving corporate speech rights. In a 5-4 ruling, the Court struck down a Massachusetts law...
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The Rise and Fall of the No-Litmus-Test Rule
For decades, presidential candidates disclaimed the idea that they would have “litmus tests” for their nominees to the Supreme Court. Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that to demand that their...
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