Further Thoughts on Citizens United and the Supreme Court
Posted March 5, 2010 by Legal Center Staff

Whatever the actual reasons for re-argument of Citizens United, the opinion has the look of an unseemly activist act. It looks more like an act of judicial legislating of the sort usually bemoaned by the Federalist Society than sober constitutional restraint of the sort advocated by the Chief Justice in his confirmation hearings.

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In Unity08 Decision Appeals Court Gets It Wrong: Statement of J. Gerald Hebert, Executive Director

Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Unity08, a self-described "nascent political party," was not a political committee subject to federal campaign finance law.