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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]
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]
21 Jul 2016, 4:42 am
At Guernica, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy looks at the relationship between the Court’s campaign-finance jurisprudence and the anti-abortion movement, arguing that “one of the reasons that the Supreme Court could rule so broadly in” the challenge to a Texas law regulating abortions “was the broad ruling in Citizens United. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 6:30 am
But if I’m right and democratic norms like valuing truth have been damaged, then more than administrative fixes in how we run elections will be needed.Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is a Professor of Law at Stetson, a Brennan Center Fellow and the author of Political Brands. [read post]
7 Mar 2020, 6:30 am
As Ciara Torres-Spelliscy carefully explains, the new technology allows for outside actors such as the Russian government to piggyback on American electoral dysfunction and exploit growing polarization by focusing messages to demobilize African-American voters. [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 3:40 am
” In an Election Law Blog post , Ciara Torres-Spelliscy observes that “…the Supreme Court […] treats fraud as a different and unprotected category that is outside of the First Amendment’s protections. [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 3:40 am
Additional commentary comes from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy at the Brennan Center for Justice. [read post]
8 Feb 2018, 4:35 am
” For the American Bar Association’s Human Rights Magazine, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy laments that if the court rules in Jesner v. [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 3:35 am
At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy calls the court’s “refusal last month to hear a case called Doe v. [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]
14 Nov 2011, 7:45 am
Reply Ciara Torres-Spelliscy – 1 Promoted Comment The public policy response to Citizens United leaves the distinct impression that our politics are not capable of producing results that 85% or more of Americans want: more transparent elections. [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]
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 Feb 2017, 4:18 am
At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy focuses on Gorsuch’s campaign finance jurisprudence, concluding that although “the good news is Gorsuch can navigate his way through a tangle of precedent—a basic qualification for a jurist,” the “bad news is he may harbor antipathy to regulating money in politics. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 3:56 am
” At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes that if the Supreme Court rules for the “faithless elector” in Colorado Department of State v. [read post]
23 May 2018, 4:18 am
” At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy looks at this term’s decision in Jesner v. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 4:10 am
Additional commentary comes from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy at the Brennan Center for Justice, who argues that “adding a citizenship question in 2020 is likely to ruin the count”; if “the Roberts Supreme Court allows this, it will be on the nativist side of history in a nation of immigrants. [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]
24 May 2017, 4:35 am
” Briefly: At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discusses Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion for the court this term in Buck v. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 6:38 am
News & World Report, the Brennan Center’s Ciara Torres-Spelliscy urges the U.S. to adopt a law like one the U.K. [read post]
