1st Amendment
Freedom and Federalism
One of the bedrocks of our governmental infrastructure is federalism. This is the constitutional recognition of the legal origins of the United States as a union of independent states. America started, of course, with 13 colonies, which became 13 states, and gradually...
Anti-Corruption Principle Doesn’t Change the First Amendment
Law professors are overwhelmingly left-of-center, and they spend an undue amount of time trying to justify nearly unlimited federal power. Sometimes they torture constitutional history to do so. For example, several have long asserted that the Constitution’s grant of...
Is there a constitutional right to privacy in political contributions?
Many have attacked the Supreme Court’s 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission for holding that the First Amendment protects the rights of citizens organized as corporations to spend money independently to support or oppose candidates. But they...
Citizens United: Questions for Today’s Opponents
Some Questions for “Progressives” Carping about the Citizens United Campaign Finance Case The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC has generated a great deal of uninformed, and sometimes hypocritical, whining. In Citizens United, the Supreme Court held...