{"id":3123,"date":"2010-01-12T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T17:06:07","slug":"still-waiting-on-citizens-united-v-fec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3123\/still-waiting-on-citizens-united-v-fec\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Waiting on Citizens United v. FEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court, unexpectedly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstamendmentcenter.org\/commentary.aspx?id=22488\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">did not issue<\/span><\/a> its opinion in the First Amendment case of <em>Citizens United v. FEC<\/em>.\u00a0  The Court heard oral arguments last September and many court watchers expected an opinion today.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this delay means the opinion is larger and more sweeping than many observers anticipated.\u00a0  The first major Supreme Court case reviewing McCain-Feingold, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/02-1674.ZS.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>McConnell v. FEC<\/em><\/span><\/a>, weighed in at 298 pages.\u00a0  Will <em>Citizens United<\/em> top that figure?<\/p>\n<p>The Court likely made up its mind last year but perhaps the long delay means that the lobbying continues.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court, unexpectedly, did not issue its opinion in the First Amendment case of Citizens United v. FEC.\u00a0 The Court heard oral arguments last September and many court watchers expected an opinion today. Perhaps this delay means the opinion is larger and more sweeping than many observers anticipated.\u00a0 The first major Supreme Court case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,94,92,284],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-citizens-united","tag-citizens-united-v-fec","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}