Supreme Court

In 2009, two uniquely American experiences so grossly offended an individual right that a bitterly divided Supreme Court had to step in. Foreigners scoff at ...

As political campaigns have become more expensive1 and sophisticated,2 Congress has increasingly regulated them,3 yet the Supreme Court has declared many aspects of that regulation unconstitutional.4 Recently, ...

I N 1948, FLINT, MICHIGAN, was more than the backdrop for a Michael Moore movie.1 While it may be difficult to imagine today, Flint was then a prosperous ...

Many legal scholars and observers perceive elected state courts in the U.S. as under siege by the politicization of judicial elections – by candidates for ...

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When government lawyers make arguments seeking to justify a state’s infringement of a constitutional right, they tend not to say something like “most people think a ...

HAVING LONG DEFENDED the First Amendment, I considered it a great privilege to have been one of the lawyers who argued Buckley v. Valeo on behalf of ...

It is appropriate for an article about the Supreme Court's Buckley opinion to appear in a law review in the Buckeye State. In terms of ...

In the wake of recent reports of questionable campaign finance practices have come ever more draconian proposals to "reform" the campaign finance system. Those proposals ...

Eliminating political party “soft money” and regulating similar spending by groups other than political parties are central features of many proposals that would reform campaign financing. ...