U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court to Take Up Biennial Contribution Limits

By Inside Political Law Staff on February 19, 2013

The top story in today’s campaign finance press is the Supreme Court’s decision to hear McCutcheon v. FEC, a challenge to the Federal Election Campaign Act’s biennial limits on individual contributions to candidate and non-candidate committees. Here are a few key take-aways.

Timing. The Court’s argument calendar is…
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U.S. Supreme Court Passes on First Political Law Cases for this Term

By Inside Political Law Staff on October 3, 2012

Posted in Campaign Finance, Litigation, State Law

October always means one thing for court-watchers: the start of a new U.S. Supreme Court term. On the first Monday of that month (when the Term traditionally begins), the Supreme Court typically releases an Orders List denying many of the thousands of petitions for certiorari that have piled up over…
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