Tag Archives: general con law
Elena Kagan nominated for Supreme Court
And Paul Campos asks whether she is the next Harriet Miers?
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The WashPo is publishing the thoughts of six spokesmen, relating to the proposal to (a) give DC a seat in the House; (b) offset this Demo seat by giving Utah an extra, likely Republican, seat and (c) attach a rider rolling back most of DC’s onerous gun restrictions. What I find appalling in the commentaries is that only Bob Levy deals with the problem that (a) and (b) are clearly unconstitutional
Full StoryStrangeness in Citizens United case
I could see an argument (were this a State case) that a corporation isn’t a “citizen” for privilege or immunities purposes, or a “person” for due process purposes. I could even see (altho I have problems with it) an argument that a corporation is entitled to lessened First Amendment protections
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The Court this morning handed down its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC. A preliminary skim: the ban on corporate “electioneering” (corporate funds for an independent expenditure, mentioning a candidate, within 30-60 days of an election) is struck down.
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People hate lawyers because 99% of them give the rest of us a bad reputation. People hate law profs because some think and speak like this : “Larry seems to argue that our own normative or empirical notions cannot play a role in fixing the semantic content of constitutional text: In his words, the belief that “semantic content is determined after the fact of communication on the basis of what we would like an utterance to have meant given our practical concerns” is a “fundamentally confused” way to think about interpretation (page 103)
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