Audio, from inside the Court, of the oral arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC is out. Click below for the C-SPAN link to listen. I prefer going to C-SPAN for the oral arguments, rather than to the Court’s site, because they have the names and pictures of the attorneys arguing, as well as pictures of each… Continue Reading
Monthly Archive: October 2013
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Confused what this case is about? Watch this short video from the Washington Post. Don’t tell Scalia you did though.
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Bloomberg writer Paul M. Barrett shoots us straight, without mincing words, and calls a spade a spade in this article: Supreme Court and Campaign Finance: Four Blunt Points.
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Emily Bazelon (Slate) joined Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report yesterday for SC ad hominem at its best.
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The five-cent explanation: Sean McCutcheon is a wealthy man who wanted to give more than $123,000, the total amount (aka “aggregate cap”) individuals can give, to candidates running for federal office in recent elections. McCutcheon’s case challenges the constitutionality of the cap, the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), and has the potential to overturn the ruling in Buckley… Continue Reading
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Boy have we been busy at SupremeBystandr (or ‘Bystanderrrrr, as one reader said)!! The semester is in full swing. Students, profs, and other bystanders are geared up and ready for the first day the Court hears oral arguments this term (next week). And it’s been such slow news cycle what with Syria and a government… Continue Reading
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