Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Campaign contributions; Campaign finance irregularities; Campaign finance limits; Campaign Finance reform; Corruption; Democracy; Election Reform; Excessive Political Spending; Federal Election Campaign Act; Federal Election Commission; Financial Reporting; First Amendment; Political speech; Superpacs; Supression of the First Amendment
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Law
Introduction; The Past, Present And Future Of Free Speech, Joel M. Gora
Introduction; The Past, Present And Future Of Free Speech, Joel M. Gora
Journal of Law and Policy
This short paper introduces the papers and commentary produced at two significant First Amendment occasions. First was a 40th anniversary celebration of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo, the fountainhead ruling on the intersection between campaign finance restrictions and First Amendment rights. The questions were discussed provocatively by two of the leading players in that decision, James Buckley himself, now a retired United States Circuit Judge, and Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU who helped organize a strange bedfellows, left-right coalition to challenge the new federal election campaign laws on First Amendment grounds. …