On that day a dozen years ago, the black-robed justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sat behind the elevated bench, facing down at Jim Bopp. Three hundred other people – lawyers, visitors and journalists – filled chairs and seats behind Bopp in the iconic courtroom in Washington, D.C. Bopp, an attor...
The Supreme Court's decision in the McCutcheon v. FEC campaign-finance case is a victory for the liberty essential to a democratic republic. Read the Article
Get Ready: The Next ‘Citizens United' Is Coming Read the Article
No American who doesn't happen to be a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court has done more to shape how elections are run and won in 2012 than Bopp. For more than three decades, Bopp has pursued 150 or so legal challenges in at least 40 states aimed at eliminating laws that he thinks gag citizens — i...
As reported by the Mother Jones Jim Bopp, the longtime counsel to the anti-abortion group National Right to Life, has now almost singlehandedly obliterated many of the nation's relatively modest restrictions on corporate election spending Read the Article
Whereas, James Bopp, has faithfully served the National Right to Life Committee for 35 years as General Counsel and has appeared before the United States Supreme Court on several occasions to defend the right to life and the right of pro-life citizens to exercise their freedom of speech; and Wher...
As reported by the New York Times. Far more than Presidents Obama and Clinton, Presidents Reagan and both Bushes cared intensely about the selection of judges. Read the Article
Now the lawyer who opened the floodgates to corporate campaign spending is rolling out a series of cases that could turn our elections upside down. Read the Article
As reported by Law.com He has been called a “litigation machine,” methodically mowing down restrictions on campaign financing and speech. It was conservative GOP activist James Bopp Jr., 65, who devised the legal strategy that led the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, which upended de...
As reported by the McClatchy A conservative Indiana lawyer engineered the string of legal victories that have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to channel tens of millions of dollars into this year's midterm elections secretly, a study by campaign watchdogs has found. Read the Article
As reported by the National Journal, the most influential player in campaign finance law right now is a lawyer operating outside the GOP establishment. Read the Article
As reported by Journal Sentinel online Lawyer Jim Bopp is working on what could be the next big campaign finance case A conservative Indiana lawyer engineered the string of legal victories that have enabled corporations and wealthy individuals to channel tens of millions of dollars into this year...
As reported by the National Right to Life Counsel, the Board of Governors of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) has recognized NRLC General Counsel James Bopp, Jr., as the 2009 Republican Lawyer of the Year. Read the Article
As reported by the American Prospect Bopp is already well into the next phase of his crusade to topple as many of the state and federal limits on the role of money in politics as can be done in one man's lifetime. Read the Article
As reported by the Mother Jones James Bopp, the conservative mastermind behind the Citizens United case, boasts that nearly all the campaign finance regulations passed in recent history have been dismantled. Read the Article
A conversation with James Bopp Jr., the plaintiffs lawyer who championed Citizens United conducted by University of California Television (UCTV) Watch the Video