TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Jun 4, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Williams-Yulee v. Florida State Bar -- which upheld a Florida law prohibiting judicial candidates from personally soliciting or receiving funds -- may create uncertainty as to the constitutionality of other restrictions on candidates' speech, Erwin Chemerinsky writes in the ABA Journal. According to Chemerinsky, the court’s emphatic declaration that judges are not politicians is in tension with a 2002 decision in Republican Party of Minnesota v. White.