Monday round-up

By Amy Howe
on Aug 17, 2015 at 6:49 am

Briefly:

• In an op-ed for The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Rick Hasen suggests that a “special jurisdictional provision” in the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law “makes it much more likely that within the next few years the Supreme Court will strike limits on the amounts people and entities can contribute to the political parties in so-called party soft money.”
• At Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost takes a look at Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench, noting that Scalia “has earned admiration from his ideological followers and attention from court watchers and the general public” but has also prompted “debate about how to deal with the spotlight-grabbing behavior that some commentators viewed as tarnishing his legacy and bringing disrespect on the judiciary.”
• At casetext, Leah Litman discusses a recent Eleventh Circuit decision on the retroactivity of the Court’s decision in Johnson v. United States, holding that the “residual clause” of the Armed Career Criminal Act is unconstitutionally vague, and the prospect that the Court will weigh in on the question.

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