Supreme court litigator. You have three excellent panels that i think you will enjoy. The format we tend to use it instead of people giving short speeches we have aa question her, and interview process and people respond to the questions. This is all unscripted. In any case my name is brad smith command i will be a panelist here as well. Now, buckley was decided 40 years ago and has been criticized routine. If the decision has been surprisingly resilient despite being predictions that it will meet its demise at any time. I remember when i 1st began getting into this area there was an insistence that buckley was a wrong tree in the question was which direction it would fall. Now buckley continues to stand in one writer has suggested it is the president of steel. Criticism has been great. Likened it to the dred scott decision spending 2,000 on a political race. I mean, these are the luminaries of americas Legal Academy that have likened the case to lochner which is if you are familiar, y
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