“A bold conservative step from Supreme Court; When justices last week ruled to strike down laws limiting corporate political spending, they signaled a tough road ahead for Democrats’ regulatory measures”: David G. Savage will have this article Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
And in Sunday’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes will have an article headlined “Justice Kennedy was key to conservatives’ win in campaign finance decision.”
“Justices Turn Minor Movie Case Into a Blockbuster”: Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also reports that “24 States’ Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling.”
Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that “Risky Strategy Leads to Big High Court Win; Theodore Olson urged justices to throw out precedent on corporate campaign contributions.”
Today in The Wall Street Journal, Bradley A. Smith has an op-ed entitled “Newsflash: First Amendment Upheld; An end to giving political speech less protection than pornography.”
Online at Slate, David Kairys has a jurisprudence essay entitled “Money Isn’t Speech and Corporations Aren’t People: The misguided theories behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on campaign finance reform.”
And online at the First Amendment Center, David L. Hudson Jr. has a commentary entitled “Lone vote vs. campaign-ad disclosure: Thomas.”
“Activists see threat to Roe precedent”: Josh Gerstein has this article today at Politico.com.
“Prison waste is matter for court; Justices to rule if feces on floor equals assault”: This article appeared Thursday in The Concord (N.H.) Monitor.
“5-4 split is the rule in high court’s big cases”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.
