[EL] McCutcheon reaction and a question

[David Holtzman, MPH, JD]

I can't wait for the news story on the first donor to give the max to every winning candidate for Congress.  It'll be something like "Donor Owns Congress"! 
The donor will be as popular as the guy who just got in to all eight Ivy League schools.  :-) dah 

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> 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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