Questions about free speech and the First Amendment are often decided at the Supreme Court. Over the years, the Court has dealt with such contentious political speech cases as flag burning, campaign spending limits, and banning political films. While there is typically some disagreement on the Court on any individual case, the Court has long held that for any political…
Neither the same as actual corruption nor well defined in its own right, the “appearance of corruption” as a basis for campaign finance regulation is suspect ...
CCP submitted comments to the FEC regarding the Citizens United decision.
‘Every dollar I spend over the threshold starts feeding the alligator trying to eat me.’’ That was the description of Arizona’s system for public financing of political ...
Corporate participation in public discourse has long been a controversial issue, one that was reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Much ...
Perhaps the most important thing that the Supreme Court does is to protect those individual rights and enforce those government limits that comprise our civil liberties. ...
United States campaign finance law is riding a wave of constitutionally driven statutory change. After almost two decades of relative deference to Congress’s judgment, the Supreme ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I would like to comment on the Fair Political Practices Commission Interested Persons topic for your Monday, ...
Liberals are currently engaged in a concerted effort to redefine judicial activism. Rather than accepting the true definition of judicial activism—when a judge applies his or her ...
In 2009, two uniquely American experiences so grossly offended an individual right that a bitterly divided Supreme Court had to step in. Foreigners scoff at ...
As political campaigns have become more expensive1 and sophisticated,2 Congress has increasingly regulated them,3 yet the Supreme Court has declared many aspects of that regulation unconstitutional.4 Recently, ...