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- 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 (1)
- First Amendment; Campaign finance limits; Campaign contributions; Federal Election Campaign Act; Excessive Political Spending; Election Reform; Democracy; Campaign finance irregularities; Supression of the First Amendment; Financial Reporting; Federal Election Commission; Campaign Finance reform; Political speech; Corruption; Superpacs (1)
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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. …
Free Speech Matters: The Roberts Court And The First Amendment, Joel M. Gora
Free Speech Matters: The Roberts Court And The First Amendment, Joel M. Gora
Journal of Law and Policy
This article contends that the Roberts Court, in the period from 2006 to 2016, arguably became the most speech-protective Supreme Court in memory. In a series of wide-ranging First Amendment decisions, the Court sounded and strengthened classic free speech themes and principles. Taken together, the Roberts Court’s decisions have left free speech rights much stronger than they were found.
Those themes and principles include a strong libertarian distrust of government regulation of speech and presumption in favor of letting people control speech, a consistent refusal to fashion new “non-speech” categories, a reluctance to “balance” free speech away against governmental interests, …