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Today’s SCOTUS Argument Doesn’t Bode Well for Campaign Finance Reform

Here’s Scotusblog’s Lyle Denniston’s take on this morning’s argument in the campaign finance case Citizens United v. FEC:
If supporters of federal curbs on political campaign spending by corporations were hoping that Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., would be hesitant to strike down such restrictions, they could take no [...]


McCain’s Court

John McCain has promised to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who could radically alter the ideological makeup of the court.