First Amendment Decision Unrelated to the First Amendment
People often claim that the Supreme Court is “conservative.” Rob Natelson says, “not so fast!”
On the New Free Speech Case
“When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.â€
Are federal campaign finance laws constitutional?
There is an on-going debate about the extent to the First Amendment bars congressional campaign finance limits. That debate is important, but it doesn’t address a more fundamental question: What empowers Congress to regulate congressional campaign finance at all?
