Federal court rules Connecticut campaign finance law unconstitutional
A federal court ruled Thursday that a Connecticut campaign finance law discriminated against minor party candidates in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments . The state's Campaign Finance Reform Act , which provided public funding to...
Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the 111th justice in the history of the US Supreme Court Saturday. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath, in which Sotomayor swore to "administer justice...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered re-argument in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on whether Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission...
Overzealous Campaign Disclosure Laws Can Stifle Debate and Endanger Private Citizens
Erik Stanley : "The Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case is pending for decision before the US Supreme Court, and the case raises some serious constitutional questions. ADF filed a friend-of-the-court brief focusing on...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , in which the Court will consider whether federal election law prohibits...
Supreme Court agrees to hear five cases including recusal, double jeopardy appeals
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases Friday. In Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company the Court will consider whether a decision by West Virginia...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...
Restoring America's Rights Record: Memo to the President-Elect
JURIST Guest Columnist Leila Nadya Sadat of Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri, says that come January, a new US administration led by President Barack Obama should take seven specific steps to restore human rights at home...
Supreme Court rules in DC gun ban, campaign finance, energy contract cases
The US Supreme Court handed down three decisions Thursday, including District of Columbia v. Heller , in which the Court ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment to the US...
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that new Congressionally-approved revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act give the Bush administration wide discretion to illegally spy on American citizens...Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration,...
