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SCOTUS to take first campaign finance case since Citizens United

Mary Katharine Ham — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:31:52 +0000

Get ready for the caterwauling over the terrible dangers of not letting the federal government regulate free political speech if the Supreme Court sides with the plaintiff on this case: Three years since the landmark Citizens United decision that dramatically changed campaign finance laws, the Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will take up another campaign [...]

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Supreme Court to take hard look at federal campaign donation limits

Ed Morrissey — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:41:14 +0000

Citizens United on steroids.

If you loved or hated the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, you’ll want to gear up for next session’s review of McCutcheon v FEC. The case will determine whether the little-known federal cap on aggregate contributions to candidates and political parties will stand constitutional scrutiny, and may impact campaign contributions more generally: In a move [...]

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NYT schooled on Citizens United, free speech by famous lawyer for the…NYT

Mary Katharine Ham — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:41:23 +0000

Debriefing.

First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams represented the New York Times, ahem, Corporation, in the Pentagon Papers case and went on to represent Mitch McConnell on the side of Citizens United in that case. When the NYT editorial board bastardized the legal reasoning in the former iconic free speech case to justify bashing the latter, Abrams [...]

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What’s the biggest media-manufactured myth of 2012?

Mary Katharine Ham — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:36:09 +0000

Access.

Matthew Continetti, of the Free Beacon, does a thorough takedown of Jane Mayer’s latest piece in The New Yorker about big money and politics, in which she predictably casts Democrats as purse-lipped, conflicted participants just trying to play defense against selfish Republicans looking to game the system for their own ends. As is often the [...]

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Trailer: “The Hope and the Change”

Allahpundit — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:10:47 +0000

Regrets.

Coming soon to a theater — and Republican convention — near you. The Hope and the Change is a more sophisticated and potentially potent effort than the Hillary project was. Instead of featuring strident partisan voices such as Morris or Ann Coulter, the cast of 40 is composed entirely of registered Democrats and independents who [...]

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WSJ: Unions contribute four times what FEC disclosures show

Ed Morrissey — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:41:02 +0000

Special interest for big government.

Lost in all the screeching over the Citizens United ruling two years ago was the fact that unions have largely been exempt from campaign-finance restrictions on speech. Unions spent a fortune in 2010, far more than the corporations will in this election, no matter what the hysterics think. In fact, according to FEC reports from [...]

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Supreme Court bolsters Citizens United decision by smacking down Montana

Erika Johnsen — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:21:00 +0000

Free speech, for the win!

So, no ObamaCare until Thursday, and the SB 1070 ruling is going to instigate some interesting fallout, but the Supreme Court did issue at least one ruling today that had me smiling. In 2010, the Supreme Court’s infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision prescribed that corporations, like individuals, are entitled to free speech — and [...]

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Myths of presidential campaign moneyball

Karl — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:36:00 +0000

The pits.

The HuffPo’s Sam Stein solicits political advice from Bill James, the “Godfather of Moneyball”: He hasn’t dabbled much in politics before. But in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which allows for unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions, James’ analytical approach has become more relevant to the political conversation. The Obama [...]

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Videos: Do you recall …

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:01:49 +0000

Revisionism.

If you watched the cable networks last night after the Wisconsin recall elections results made it obvious that Scott Walker won decisively over Tom Barrett, you’d have come away with the idea that no one thought this would mean anything in the national election five months from now, or in any other state. That kind [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:38:57 +0000

Now what?

“The Supreme Court spent 91 minutes Wednesday operating on the assumption that it would strike down the key feature of the new health care law, but may have convinced itself in the end not to do that because of just how hard it would be to decide what to do after that. A common reaction, [...]

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Supreme Court blocks Montana court ruling to restrict outside campaign spending

Tina Korbe — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:40:32 +0000

As it should.

When a Montana court ruled in December that the state’s longstanding restrictions on outside campaign spending should be allowed to stand, it was clear that the Supreme Court would have to address the issue. That Montana ruling, after all, stood in contradiction to the SCOTUS’ landmark decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which [...]

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Progressives United blasts Dems who disapprove of executive order on disclosures

Tina Korbe — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:10:27 +0000

No free speech for Feingold?

Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold’s Political Action Committee this week sent an e-mail blast to members soliciting $5 donations to place ads intended to “shame” three of Feingold’s former Democratic colleagues because they disagree with him about one aspect of campaign finance. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) [...]

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