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"Corporations Are People, Too: Jeffrey Toobin plays fast and loose in his assault on Citizens United." Law professor Richard A. Epstein has this essay online today at the "Defining Ideas" site of the Hoover Institution....  

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When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest importance. The issue before the Justices was a narrow one. The McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law prohibited corporations from running television commercials for or against . . .  

    Sent to you by Karl via Google Reader:     Jeffrey Toobin on Citizens United via The Volokh Conspiracy by Jonathan H. Adler on 5/14/12 (Jonathan H. Adler) The latest New Yorker has an extensive excerpt of Jeffrey Toobin's forthcoming book, The Oath: The Obama White House vs. the Supreme Court, focusing on the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The story, "Money Unlimited: How Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the...  

Although thousands of articles and opinion pieces have been published about the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v FEC, this article is noteworthy. It is by Jeffrey Toobin and appears in The New Yorker. As is traditional for that magazine, the article is very long (ten pages on a computer) and contains [...]  

Ted Olson, initially advanced. As White asks: Given Toobin’s inability of accurately handling straightforward, easily confirmable facts, why should anyone take at face value Toobin’s description of the Justices’ private discussions, and their draft ...  

FEC, which affirmed a corporation's First Amendment right to spend money on independent speech on political issues, even when that speech criticizes candidates for office. According to Toobin's account—styled as a behind the scenes exposé—Chief ...  

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin has a long essay purporting to establish, as the essay’s subtitle puts it, “how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United [v. FEC] decision”—the January 2010 ruling that struck down a ...  

Ed Whelan charges the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin with spinning the history of the First Amendment campaign regulation case [first, second, followup] Tom Goldstein at SCOTUSBlog, while sympathetic to Toobin’s overall project, also takes issue with him at numerous points. More: Adam White, Weekly Standard. Tweet Tags: campaign regulation, Supreme CourtToobin on Citizens United is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal...  

A quick look at the week that was in the world of political dark money... How Citizens United went down: The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin has a riveting behind-the-scenes story of how the Roberts court decided the landmark Citizens United case. Toobin contends that Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated a sweeping reinterpretation of decades of campaign-finance laws while keeping his fingerprints off the final opinion (written by Justice...  

The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin this week revealed  juicy bits from the Supreme Court’s deliberations as it considered Citizens United, the thunderous case in which the court allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums on candidate elections, paving the way for big-spending super PACs. Toobin told of a secret draft Citizens United dissent by Justice David Souter that has never been released—a draft that Souter, who has since...  

(Jonathan H. Adler) Adam White finds Jeffrey Toobin re-writing history in his much discussed New Yorker article on Citizens United. As Toobin set up the story, Citizens United was a little case, involving a “narrow” statutory question. According to Toobin’s New Yorker article, “There did not see to be a lot riding on the outcome.” White finds Toobin’s [...]  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The media is beside itself over the government's performance at the Supreme Court yesterday on the Arizona immigration law. We've got audio sound bites. Jeffrey Toobin, somebody get him away from high places. Somebody take the belt off of his slacks. Jeffrey Toobin is beside himself. He thinks they're gonna lose the health care thing, and he thinks that this debacle yesterday on the Arizona immigration law hurts. These...  

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin’s recent New Yorker article about Chief Justice John Roberts’ influence in shaping the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has gotten some pushback from another prominent court commentator, Tom Goldstein. A veteran Supreme Court litigator, Goldstein suggests in a post at SCOTUSblog, which he founded, that “the facts reported by Toobin don’t seem [...]  

Jeffrey Toobin writes in the current issue of The New Yorker about Money Unlimited: how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision. Toobin's article explains how Roberts, by having the case reargued, expanded the scope ...