Justice Scalia to Speak at Wesleyan

[johnwesley]

<p>Here’s a pretty good capsule of the state of play between <em>Citizens United</em> and <em>Tillman</em> in Sunday’s NYTimes:<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/even-worse-than-citizens-united.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/even-worse-than-citizens-united.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>As predicted, a lower court decision has used <em>Citizens</em> , which on a superficial level “only” concerned campaign contributions funneled through independent organizations, to attack <em>Tillman</em>:

Flouting that precedent, Judge Cacheris ruled that the “logic” of “Citizens United requires that corporations and individuals be afforded equal rights to political speech, unqualified.” He also flouted a 2003 Supreme Court case upholding the ban on direct corporate donations. Judge Cacheris has no basis for rejecting those two decisions, which bind the lower courts until the Supreme Court overturns them. </p>

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