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Friday, March 25, 2011
Law - "Does the Supreme Court care more about free speech for the wealthy than about political corruption? [Updated]"
Richard L. Hasen, the William H. Hannon distinguished professor at Loyola Law School, and author of the Election Law Blog, has this article today in Slate. A quote:
On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in McComish v. Bennett, a case from Arizona in which those wealthy opponents and outside groups have complained that this additional spending violates their First Amendment rights. And once again, just a year after the court in Citizens United turned on the corporate-money spigot by allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections (and the FEC allowed corporations to hide much of their donations), the court appears poised to side with the wealthy in a campaign finance case.Here is the SCOTUSblog case page.
[Updated 3/26/11] More coverage of Monday's oral argument. This one is from Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog, and is headed "Politics and public money: The Court holds oral argument Monday on the constitutionality of Arizona’s system for using public funds to subsidize some state political candidates, a case with nationwide implications."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 25, 2011 02:47 PM
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