Donald Trump went after the family that owns the Chicago Cubs on Monday after campaign finance filings revealed that its matriarch, Marlene Ricketts, provided $3 million in seed money for a super PAC running attack ads against him.Source: Donald Trump warns owners of Chicago Cubs ‘better be careful’ after funding campaign against him...

Recognizing that political speech is at the core of what the First Amendment protects, the Supreme Court has applied constitutional scrutiny and established the two-track system under which government may regulate political speech.Source: The Constitutionality of State Law Triggering Political Committee(-Like) Burdens and the Current Circuit Splits...

Justice Scalia and Campaign Finance: A Puzzle -In voting as a member of the Roberts majority on campaign finance, Justice Scalia could be a reliable member of the “conservative bloc”, but also have his own reasons—just as Justices Kagan and Ginsburg may vote with Justice Breyer on campaign finance without sharing his theory of “Active Liberty.”  Scalia accepted a role...

So here’s the case for Trump’s standing (as I alluded to in an earlier post): competitive standing. Here’s a 2008 federal district court case, Hollander v. McCain, involving a voter challenge to McCain’s eligibility to run for president: To be sure, courts have held that a candidate or his political party has standing to challenge the inclusion of an allegedly...