[EL] McCutcheon reaction and a question

[Scarberry, Mark]

On the first point, see Will Baude's post on the Volokh Conspiracy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/04/02/where-do-the-supreme-courts-campaign-finance-cases-come-from/. According to Will, under BCRA at least some of these campaign finance cases come directly to the S. Ct. by direct appeal rather than by grant of cert. The Court then, I gather, must deal with the merits, at least in a summary way.

Answer to the second question: No, unless someone dies and leaves me several billion dollars. Anyone on the list ....?

Mark

Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law



From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Shockley, John
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 11:50 AM
To: Rick Hasen
Cc: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] McCutcheon reaction and a question

Dear All:

Unlike Rick, I haven't read the McCutcheon opinion, but I've got a reaction and a question:  Considering all the possible cases the Supreme Court could take (on First Amendment issues and everything else), I find it fascinating that the five majority justices would decide that whether a federal ban on contributions over the $123,200 limit ($246,400 for a couple) would merit hearing as one of their few cases this year.  This is obvious a very important right (of free speech!) for the five justices.
My question is this:  Will any members of this listserve now plan to take part in this very important right the Supreme Court has given to ALL of us?  At the larger level, I also wonder what percent of the American people will actually be able to use this new right?
Yours,
John Shockley
Augsburg College (semi-retired)



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