New Jersey Senate Race Shows Money Doesn’t Buy Elections… Again

December 7, 2021   •  By Tiffany Donnelly   •  , ,

Edward Durr’s astonishing victory over New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney is the latest illustration that money doesn’t buy elections. Campaign spending increases public ...

New Jersey Bankers Association v. Attorney General of New Jersey

November 23, 2021   •  By IFS staff   •  , , ,

Industry-specific contribution bans such as New Jersey’s directly burden associational rights and are subject to exacting scrutiny, which requires narrow tailoring. The district court ...

Restrictions on ballot slogans violate free speech

This piece originally appeared in the The Star-Ledger on July 30, 2020.   If you voted in the primary, you probably noticed a short slogan ...

Candidates Sue New Jersey Over Restrictions on Campaign Slogans

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July 2, 2020   •  By IFS Staff   •  , , ,

 Two candidates for Congress in New Jersey today asked a federal court to declare the state's restrictions on campaign slogans unconstitutional. The Institute for Free Speech ...

Mazo and McCormick v. Way, et al.

July 2, 2020   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  , ,

New Jersey law allows candidates in primary elections for Congress to include a slogan of up to six words next to their name on ...

New Jersey Agrees Not to Enforce Unconstitutional Anti-Privacy Law

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February 27, 2020   •  By IFS Staff   •  , ,

In a letter filed in federal court yesterday, New Jersey's Attorney General announced an agreement not to enforce a law requiring nonprofits to publicly ...

Courts come to defense of free speech in New Jersey, New York

November 18, 2019   •  By David Keating   •  , , , ,

As legislatures and administrative bodies fight harder than ever to expose the identities of nonprofit donors, courts must step up to the challenge of ...

Federal Court Halts Enforcement of New Jersey Nonprofit Disclosure Law

October 8, 2019   •  By Ryan Morrison   •  , , ,

It was a good day for the First Amendment in New Jersey last week, as a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction to ...

New Anti-Privacy Law Could Seriously Harm New Jersey Organizations

June 25, 2019   •  By Meghan Brandabur   •  , , ,

On June 17, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed S. 150, sweeping legislation that requires nonprofit groups that speak about issues of public importance ...

Constitutional and Practical Issues with New Jersey A. 1524

March 15, 2019   •  By Eric Wang   •  , , ,

A. 1524 would subject advocacy groups to unconstitutionally vague, broad, and invasive new “disclosure” requirements for merely providing factual information to their members and ...

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