Summary Affirmance in Bluman v. FEC Lets Stand Ban on Campaign Contributions by Foreign Nationals

On SCOTUSblog, Lyle Denniston comments on the Court’s rejection of the opportunity to extend Citizens United.    Last week the NY Times Room for Debate feature presented varying assessments of the merits of the Bluman's challenge. Participants included from UC Irvine election law expert  Richard L. Hasen,  Ben Freeman from the Project on Government Oversight,  Yaakov Roth, the lawyer for petitioner Bluman, Viet D. Dinh of Georgetown Law School , Ian Millhiser from the Center for American Progress, and  Toni M. Massaro of University of Arizona Law School .    

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