Ciara Torres-Spelliscy looks at fate of Supreme Court with Trump victory in Vox article

By Ian Millhiser
Vox
Aug. 25, 2020

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America could become even less democratic if President Donald Trump gets to fill another Supreme Court seat.

“There are already five conservative votes on the Supreme Court to dismantle campaign finance reforms,” according to Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a law professor at Stetson University and an expert on money in politics. In this sense, Torres-Spelliscy told me, a third Trump justice would only provide a “superfluous sixth vote” for the Court’s decisions undermining these laws.

This article was originally published on the Vox website on Aug. 25, 2020, with the headline, “What happens to the Supreme Court (and the Constitution) if Trump wins.”

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Post date: Aug. 27, 2020

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