Chief Justice Checks Out a Website for Constitutional Ammunition in Campaign Finance Case

A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strike down an Arizona campaign finance law that doles out additional matching funds to publicly financed candidates as privately financed candidates spend more. The five justices who appeared ready to strike down the law were all in the majority last year in the Citizens United decision finding corporations have a First Amendment right to support federal candidates, according to the New York Times, the National Law Journal and the Washington Post. The lawyer challenging the Arizona law, William Maurer of the Institute for…