The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

BY PETER SCHEER—Successful technology firms pride themselves on their capacity to disrupt the established order. The reference is usually to a technological advance that poses an existential threat to an entrenched industry or way of doing business. Think of Apple Computer’s impact on the cellphone and music industries, Google on the sale and delivery of [...]

Stanford Professor: Citizen’s United “Unjustly Maligned”

Stanford law professor Kathleen M. Sullivan examines the Citizens United ruling in the new issue of Harvard Law Review. Prof. Kathleen Sullivan: Citizens United Has Been “Unjustly Maligned” November 22, 2010 12:52 P.M. By Ed Whelan In an article in the new issue of the Harvard Law Review, Stanford law professor Kathleen M. Sullivan—who is [...]

‘Soft money’ ban survives in federal court

A federal court has turned back an effort by the Republican National Committee to lift restrictions on raising soft money for use in state elections. It was one of the first tests of the limits of the recent Supreme Court decision rolling back laws limiting corporate campaign spending. -db JURIST March 26, 2010 By Zach Zagger [...]

Supreme Court to hear crucial campaign financing case early this month

The Supreme Court will cut short its summer break to hear rare re-arguments on a case first heard in March that could result in their overturning curbs on corporate spending on political candidates. -DB The New York Times August 30, 2009 By Adam Liptak WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court will cut short its summer break [...]