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The Post-Citizens United Fantasy-Land, Roy A. Schotland
The Post-Citizens United Fantasy-Land, Roy A. Schotland
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
First, a bouquet for the illuminating facts presented by Professors Wert, Gaddie, and Bullock. They make dramatically clear how minuscule independent spending by corporate PACs has been (that is, those PACs’ direct spending as distinct from support by those PACs or their corporate sponsors for spending by intermediaries like the Chamber of Commerce). Their showing is borne out by experience this year: corporate support for campaigns is almost all hidden, flowing through intermediaries, which is why getting effective disclosure is more important than ever, as the Court clearly recognizes (We probably owe much to Justice Kennedy for the fact that …
Democracy, Race, And Multiculturalism In The Twenty-First Century: Will The Voting Rights Act Ever Be Obsolete?, Sheryll Cashin
Democracy, Race, And Multiculturalism In The Twenty-First Century: Will The Voting Rights Act Ever Be Obsolete?, Sheryll Cashin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Part I of this essay begins one hundred years before the passage of the Act, with Reconstruction. I briefly canvas the interracial alliances of the Reconstruction and Redemption periods, underscoring that American democracy has been most responsive to the masses, including working class whites, when interracial alliances between whites and blacks commanded majority power. I then recount how a politics of white supremacy animated and perpetuated racial schisms between blacks and whites for a century in the South. Part II describes how the Act came to be passed, emphasizing the role of protest and coalition politics in its enactment, and …
Supplemental Brief Of Respondents Al Gore Jr. And Florida Democratic Party, Bush V. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd., No. 00-836 (U.S. Nov. 30, 2000), Neal K. Katyal, Peter J. Rubin
Supplemental Brief Of Respondents Al Gore Jr. And Florida Democratic Party, Bush V. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd., No. 00-836 (U.S. Nov. 30, 2000), Neal K. Katyal, Peter J. Rubin
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
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Reply Brief Of Respondents Al Gore, Jr., And Florida Democratic Party, George W. Bush V. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, No. 00-836 (U.S. Nov. 30, 2000), Neal K. Katyal, Peter J. Rubin
Reply Brief Of Respondents Al Gore, Jr., And Florida Democratic Party, George W. Bush V. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, No. 00-836 (U.S. Nov. 30, 2000), Neal K. Katyal, Peter J. Rubin
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
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