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Politics At The Pulpit: Tax Benefits, Substantial Burdens, And Institutional Free Exercise, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer Jan 2009

Politics At The Pulpit: Tax Benefits, Substantial Burdens, And Institutional Free Exercise, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Journal Articles

More than fifty years ago, Congress enacted a prohibition against political campaign intervention for all charities, including churches and other houses of worship, as a condition for receiving tax deductible contributions. Yet the IRS has never taken a house of worship to court for alleged violation of the prohibition through political comments from the pulpit, presumably at least in part because of concerns about the constitutionality of doing so. This decision is surprising, because a careful review of Free Exercise Clause case law - both before and after the landmark Employment Division v. Smith decision - reveals that the prohibition …


The Forgotten Freedom Of Assembly, John D. Inazu Jan 2009

The Forgotten Freedom Of Assembly, John D. Inazu

Scholarship@WashULaw

The freedom of assembly has been at the heart of some of the most important social movements in American history: antebellum abolitionism, women's suffrage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the labor movement in the Progressive Era and after the New Deal, and the civil rights movement. Claims of assembly stood against the ideological tyranny that exploded during the first Red Scare in the years surrounding the First World War and the second Red Scare of 1950s McCarthyism. Abraham Lincoln once called 'the right of the people peaceably to assemble' part of 'the Constitutional substitute for revolution'. In 1939, the …


The Clear And Present Internet: Terrorism, Cyberspace, And The First Amendment, Peter Margulies Oct 2008

The Clear And Present Internet: Terrorism, Cyberspace, And The First Amendment, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Money As Property: The Effects Of Doctrinal Misallocation On Campaign Finance Reform, Maneesh Sharma May 2008

Money As Property: The Effects Of Doctrinal Misallocation On Campaign Finance Reform, Maneesh Sharma

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

By applying First Amendment jurisprudence to campaign finance measures, this Note argues that the Supreme Court has misallocated campaign finance within its doctrinal scheme. This doctrinal misallocation has stymied the ability of legislatures to enact effective reforms to reduce the role of money in politics. This Note argues that money in the political process more closely resembles property than speech and should therefore be analyzed under a less stringent property review. This Note concludes by proposing a standard of review developed from the Court's property jurisprudence.


Magic Words And Millionaires: The Supreme Court's Assault On Campaign Funding, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2008), Michael J. Kasper Jan 2008

Magic Words And Millionaires: The Supreme Court's Assault On Campaign Funding, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2008), Michael J. Kasper

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Public Employee Speech, Categorical Balancing And § 1983: A Critique Of Garcetti V. Ceballos, Sheldon H. Nahmod Jan 2008

Public Employee Speech, Categorical Balancing And § 1983: A Critique Of Garcetti V. Ceballos, Sheldon H. Nahmod

University of Richmond Law Review

I propose to discuss Garcetti's First Amendment reasoning as well as the implications of the § 1983' setting in which Garcetti and other public employee free speech cases typically arise. After briefly setting out the Court's opinion and the three dissenting opinions, I begin by addressing the pros and cons of Garcetti, and in the course of so doing, I discuss the prior Pickering-Connick landscape that Garcetti so significantly altered. I consider the deeper First Amendment implications of Garcetti, including itsuse of categorical balancing to create an absolute immunity fromFirst Amendment liability for employer discipline based on job-required public employee …


Federal Campaign Finance Reform Based On Virginia Election Law, Rhodes B. Ritenour Nov 2007

Federal Campaign Finance Reform Based On Virginia Election Law, Rhodes B. Ritenour

University of Richmond Law Review

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Second Class For The Second Time: How The Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use Of Aggregated Public Records, Brian N. Larson, Genelle I. Belmas Jul 2007

Second Class For The Second Time: How The Commercial Speech Doctrine Stigmatizes Commercial Use Of Aggregated Public Records, Brian N. Larson, Genelle I. Belmas

Faculty Scholarship

This Article argues that access to aggregated electronic public records for commercial use should receive protection under the First Amendment in the same measure as the speech acts the access supports. In other words, we view commercial access to aggregated public records as an essential means to valuable speech. For many, however, the taint of the commercial speech doctrine is turning all “information flows” into commercial ones. This, in turn, is threatening the access to government records.


Hemlock In The Marketplace: How Freedom Of The Press For College Newspapers Poisons The First Amendment, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1365 (2007), Michael Hopkins Jan 2007

Hemlock In The Marketplace: How Freedom Of The Press For College Newspapers Poisons The First Amendment, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1365 (2007), Michael Hopkins

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legalized Gaming And Political Contributions: When The Diceman Cometh, Will Corruption Goeth?, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1089 (2007), Bonny Bumiller Jan 2007

Legalized Gaming And Political Contributions: When The Diceman Cometh, Will Corruption Goeth?, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1089 (2007), Bonny Bumiller

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Religious Origins Of Disestablishment Principles, Marci A. Hamilton, Rachel Steamer Jun 2006

The Religious Origins Of Disestablishment Principles, Marci A. Hamilton, Rachel Steamer

Articles

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Establishment Clause Jurisprudence And The Free Exercise Dilemma: A Structural Unitary-Accommodationist Argument For The Constitutionality Of God In The Public Square, Carolyn A. Deverich Mar 2006

Establishment Clause Jurisprudence And The Free Exercise Dilemma: A Structural Unitary-Accommodationist Argument For The Constitutionality Of God In The Public Square, Carolyn A. Deverich

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Reply To Professor Beck, Jason Carter Jan 2006

A Reply To Professor Beck, Jason Carter

Georgia Law Review

The 2004 election reinvigorated the debate about Christianity's role in our nation's lawmaking. The election saw increased polarization between the secular left, and the politicized Christian right.' Evangelical Protestants voted overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, while the most secular voters voted overwhelmingly for John Kerry.2 The 2004 election emboldened the Christian right. In addition to what they believed was their crucial role in President Bush's victory, the Christian right celebrated the passage of constitutional amendments banning gay marriage in all eleven states where such amendments were on the ballot.? One leader of the Christian right stated that …


Toward A Genuine Debate About Morals, Religion, Politics, And Law: Why America Needs A Christian Response To The "Christian" Right, Jason Carter Jan 2006

Toward A Genuine Debate About Morals, Religion, Politics, And Law: Why America Needs A Christian Response To The "Christian" Right, Jason Carter

Georgia Law Review

America's current debate about religion's role in politics offers a false choice. On one side is the politicized Christian right.' This group, loosely defined, consists of those political groups and leaders who associate themselves with traditional conservative ideas on culture and claim to represent fundamentalist or evangelical Christians. This group has been by far the most vocal advocate of the position that religion deserves an increased role in our nation's policy making. Indeed, it has come to dominate that position. The response to the Christian right has come almost exclusively from the secular left. It argues not with the Christian …


The City Of God And The Cities Of Men: A Response To Jason Carter, Randy Beck Jan 2006

The City Of God And The Cities Of Men: A Response To Jason Carter, Randy Beck

Georgia Law Review

Jason initially considers and rejects philosophical positions that call for citizens to put aside their religious beliefs when they participate in the political sphere.' He advocates, instead, the freedom to live a "religiously integrated existence" in all areas of life, including political life. Here, Jason reminds me of another Carter-Professor Stephen L. Carter of the Yale Law School. In The Culture of Disbelief, Professor Carter contends that "[in our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and …


Foreword, Richard B. Collins Jan 2006

Foreword, Richard B. Collins

Publications

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Originalism, Ceremonial Deism And The Pledge Of Allegiance, Z. Ryan Pahnke Mar 2005

Originalism, Ceremonial Deism And The Pledge Of Allegiance, Z. Ryan Pahnke

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Cheers, Profanity, And Free Speech, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2005

Cheers, Profanity, And Free Speech, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Campaign Finance Reform, Electioneering Communications, And The First Amendment: Resuscitating The Third Exception, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1315 (2005), Daniel B. Roth Jan 2005

Campaign Finance Reform, Electioneering Communications, And The First Amendment: Resuscitating The Third Exception, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1315 (2005), Daniel B. Roth

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Buttletproof Speech: Are Political Books Beyond Litigation's Reach, Emily Kirstine Wacker Jan 2005

Buttletproof Speech: Are Political Books Beyond Litigation's Reach, Emily Kirstine Wacker

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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Rethinking Campaign-Finance Reform: The Pressing Need For Deregulation And Disclosure, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 633 (2004), Cecil C. Kuhne Iii Jan 2004

Rethinking Campaign-Finance Reform: The Pressing Need For Deregulation And Disclosure, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 633 (2004), Cecil C. Kuhne Iii

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Not For Attribution: Government's Interest In Protecting The Integrity Of Its Own Expression, Helen Norton Jan 2004

Not For Attribution: Government's Interest In Protecting The Integrity Of Its Own Expression, Helen Norton

Publications

Public entities increasingly maintain that the First Amendment permits them to ensure that private speakers' views are not mistakenly attributed to the government. Consider, for example, Virginia's efforts to ban the Sons of Confederate Veterans' display of the Confederate flag logo on state-sponsored specialty license plates. Seeking to remain neutral in the ongoing debate over whether the Confederate flag is a symbol of "hate" or "heritage," Virginia argued that the state would be wrongly perceived as endorsing the flag if the logo appeared on a state-issued plate adorned by the identifier "VIRGINIA." The Fourth Circuit was unpersuaded, holding that the …


Say Cheese: The Constitutionality Of State-Mandated Airtime On Public Broadcasting Stations In Wisconsin, Andrew D. Cotlar Dec 2003

Say Cheese: The Constitutionality Of State-Mandated Airtime On Public Broadcasting Stations In Wisconsin, Andrew D. Cotlar

Federal Communications Law Journal

Last year, the State of Wisconsin passed legislation which would require statechartered public broadcasting television networks to carry political advertising for candidates free of charge. In this article, Andrew Cotlar raises many concerns about the wisdom of such legislation and the impact this trend may have on public broadcasters throughout the nation. The author begins by analyzing the current position of the law on political access requirements, at both federal and state levels, and then argues that the public television stations should continue to be free to exercise substantial editorial discretion. The Article proceeds to critique the Wisconsin statute as …


Reporting On Terrorism: Choosing Our Words Carefully, Jeffrey A. Dvorkin Mar 2003

Reporting On Terrorism: Choosing Our Words Carefully, Jeffrey A. Dvorkin

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Business Of Expression: Economic Liberty, Political Factions And The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy Of Justice George Sutherland, 10 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 249 (2002), Samuel R. Olken Jan 2002

The Business Of Expression: Economic Liberty, Political Factions And The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy Of Justice George Sutherland, 10 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 249 (2002), Samuel R. Olken

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

In The Business of Expression: Economic Liberty, Political Factions And The Forgotten First Amendment Legacy of Justice George Sutherland, Samuel Olken traces the dichotomy that emerged in constitutional law in the aftermath of the Lochner era between economic liberty and freedom of expression. During the 1930s, while a deeply divided United States Supreme Court adopted a laissez faire approach to economic regulation, it viewed with great suspicion laws that restricted the manner and content of expression. During this period, Justice George Sutherland often clashed with the majority consistently insisting that state regulation of private economic rights bear a close and …


Regulating Political Parties Under A Public Rights First Amendment, Gregory P. Magarian Jan 2002

Regulating Political Parties Under A Public Rights First Amendment, Gregory P. Magarian

Scholarship@WashULaw

The recently-enacted McCain-Feingold campaign finance law pushes to the fore the questions of whether and to what extent the First Amendment allows government to regulate the electoral activities of political parties. One of the new law's primary components is its attempt to eliminate so-called "soft money"- unlimited donations to national political parties that the Democrats and Republicans have used to circumvent legal limits on campaign contributions? One congressional opponent of the new law called it "the death knell" for political parties' role in elections." Not surprisingly, both major parties have attacked McCain-Feingold. Most Republicans in Congress opposed the legislation, and …


Rendering Unto Caesar Or Electioneering For Caesar--Loss Of Church Tax Exemption For Participation In Electoral Politics, Alan L. Feld Jul 2001

Rendering Unto Caesar Or Electioneering For Caesar--Loss Of Church Tax Exemption For Participation In Electoral Politics, Alan L. Feld

Faculty Scholarship

The restriction on church participation in political campaigns contained in the Internal Revenue Code operates uneasily. It appears to serve the useful purpose of separating the spheres of religion and electoral politics. But the separation often is only apparent, as churches in practice signal support for a particular candidate in a variety of rays that historically have not cost them their exemptions. Although the limited enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service has reflected the sensitive nature of the First Amendment values present, the federal government should provide more formal elaboration by statute or regulation. Focus on the use of funds …


Jones V. Clinton: A Study In Politically Motivated Suits, Rule 1 1, And The First Amendment, Carol Rice Andrews Mar 2001

Jones V. Clinton: A Study In Politically Motivated Suits, Rule 1 1, And The First Amendment, Carol Rice Andrews

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Ideology Of Judging And The First Amendment In Judicial Election Campaigns, W. Bradley Wendel Jan 2001

The Ideology Of Judging And The First Amendment In Judicial Election Campaigns, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Editorial Rights Of Public Broadcasting Stations Vs. Access For Minor Political Candidates To Television Debates, Kyu Ho Youm May 2000

Editorial Rights Of Public Broadcasting Stations Vs. Access For Minor Political Candidates To Television Debates, Kyu Ho Youm

Federal Communications Law Journal

In Arkansas Education Television Commission v. Forbes, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state-owned public station did not violate the First Amendment in excluding a third-party candidate from a political debate organized and broadcast by the television station because the debate was a nonpublic forum. In this Article, Professor Youm examines the constitutional and statutory framework on the access for political candidates to TV debates, the judicial interpretations of the political candidates' claim for access to public television debates, and the Supreme Court's balancing in Forbes of the conflicts between the candidates' access rights and the …