Supreme Court to rule on Arizona campaign finance scheme

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in four cases, consolidating two cases concerning campaign financing [JURIST news archive]. In Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court will determine whether the First Amendment [text] forbids states from providing additional government subsidies to publicly financed candidates that are triggered by independent expenditure groups’ speech against such candidates or by the candidates’ privately financed…