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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]
18 May 2020, 3:17 am
At the Brennan Center for Justice, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes that “[i]n some good news for reformers working to combat political corruption and empower small donors, the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Seattle’s ‘democracy voucher’ program providing public financing for local elections. [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]
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]
7 Jul 2020, 3:40 am
Additional commentary comes from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy at the Brennan Center for Justice. [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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
15 Apr 2024, 6:02 am
As a result of these cases, which Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy discussed in some length in a 2019 article in the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Court conveyed the clear message that access to government officials and access to government power more broadly is for sale – that public officials can be inundated with extravagant gifts, loans, and other benefits as a “normal” part of how the government operates. [read post]
