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1 Jul 2016, 4:43 am
” In The Huffington Post, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy weighs in on the Monday’s decision in McDonnell v. [read post]
10 May 2016, 5:44 am
” Commentary comes from Ed Kilgore, who in New York discusses possible Supreme Court nominees from a President Donald Trump, while at the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy suggests that Scalia’s “unexpected death could mean that troublesome language in Roberts Court campaign finance cases during the past 11 years will not be used to jettison even more regulations. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 8:34 am
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, law professor at Stetson University... [read post]
16 Feb 2016, 10:27 am
” Also at Medium, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy acknowledges that Scalia was a “brilliant man,” but also contends that, by “the time he died, he “was woefully out of step with how average Americans felt about their fellow gay citizens. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 2:58 am
” At medium, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses a petition for review filed by chocolate giant Nestlé in a case that “arose when several John Does from Cote D’Ivoire in Africa sued Nestlé for aiding and abetting their enslavement as children,” and she contends that, if “the Supreme Court takes the case and agrees with Nestlé, then these arguments could insulate all multinational corporations from answering for human rights… [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 5:31 am
Commentary comes from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, who at the Brennan Center for Justice describes the case as a “big win for direct democracy and voters in general,” while at his Election Law Blog Rick Hasen notes that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg not only corrected an error in her opinion for the Court but also announced that correction. [read post]
5 May 2015, 3:45 am
And at Guernica, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy weighs in on the decision, suggesting that “the fact that the Supreme Court is recognizing that there are problems created by fundraising judges is a step in the right direction. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 3:49 am
Briefly: At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy explains why, for her, “[s]ometimes the sweetest sounds in the Home of the Brave are the words ‘cert. denied. [read post]
12 Feb 2015, 7:24 am
Briefly: In a post at the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses the cert. petition filed recently in ProtectMarriage.com-Yes on 8 v. [read post]
6 Feb 2015, 6:00 am
Below the fold is Version 3.1 of the census of law prof Twitter users. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 4:44 am
Below the fold is Version 3.0 of the census of law prof Twitter users. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 6:46 pm
The abundance of tweets at the AALS Annual Meeting (#AALS2015) made me sit up and take notice of how many more law professors there seem to be on Twitter now compared to 2012 when I last updated the Census of Law Professor Twitter users (see Version 1.0 here and Version 2.0 here). [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 3:25 am
At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy lists “14 Things We Learned About Money in Politics in 2014” and predicts that her top item – the Court’s decision in McCutcheon v. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 4:00 am
From SSRN:Vincius Marinho, The Tension Between Normativity and Plurality in Religious Dogmas and in Constitutional Principles, (June 23, 2014).Carl Mosk, Liberal Nationalism, Religious Nationalism, and the Human Development Index, (July 16, 2014).Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The Democracy We Left Behind in Greece and McCutcheon, (July 18, 2014).Cyra Akila Choudhury, From Bandung 1955 to Bangladesh 1971: Oppressed Populations, Self-Determination, and Third Worldist Failures in… [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 4:58 am
At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses the testimony of two state legislators – Jamie Raskin and Floyd McKissick – at a hearing on a proposed amendment to overturn the Court’s recent campaign finance rulings, characterizing them as “clarions warning the nation about money in politics after Citizens United. [read post]
9 May 2014, 3:15 am
” At the blog of the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses efforts by former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who has been indicted on federal corruption charges, to rely on the Court’s campaign finance jurisprudence as part of his defense. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 1:57 pm
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Kathy Fogel, and Rwan El-Khatib have posted Running the D.C. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 11:14 am
“The Bullet Democracy Dodged” by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy in the Brennan Center for Justice blog. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 4:11 am
” Briefly: At the Brennan Center for Justice’s blog, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses the recent denial of certiorari in Iowa Right to Life Committee v. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 4:38 am
” At ACSblog, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy laments that not “only are [the Justices] forgetting precedent from decades ago, they can’t even recall cases from the beginning of the Roberts Court—a mere eight years ago,” while in an op-ed for Reuters Elizabeth Wydra contends that “the court’s conservative majority’s rulings have . . . made it easier for big-money donors to influence elections — while making it harder for… [read post]
