Litigation

McComish Case Arguments Previewed

By Peter Hardin

With Supreme Court arguments scheduled Monday in an important campaign finance case, several major national newspapers have reported on the legal issues to be debated.

In McComish v. Bennett, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a provision in Arizona’s public financing law that critics contend violates free speech rights. Four states with public financing of judicial elections have a similar provision in their laws and could be affected by the ruling.  Justice at Stake has urged the high court to uphold the constitutionality of the challenged provision, and Gavel Grab has written extensively about the case.

A Washington Post article about the case was entitled, “With Ariz. case, Supreme Court takes up campaign finance issue again.” “Arizona election law heads to Supreme Court,” declared a Los Angeles Times headline. The Christian Science Monitor published an article headlined, “Supreme Court to decide Arizona’s unique campaign financing  law.”

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 27, 2011 (boomark / email).