ProPublica Leak Illustrates Importance of IRS Privacy Reform

July 29, 2021   •  By Tiffany Donnelly   •  , , ,

As Americans, we all have the right to privately support causes we believe in. The last thing we need is for the IRS to ...

If Corporations Can Speak, Then They Can Speak Freely

July 27, 2021   •  By Nathan Maxwell   •  , , ,

When the Georgia General Assembly took on voting rules in March, partisan attitudes toward corporate speech rights inverted, with Republicans now opposed and Democrats ...

School Board Candidate Wins Injunction Against Florida Censorship Scheme

July 20, 2021   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

A federal district court recently issued a preliminary injunction in Hetherington v. Madden. The court’s order prevents Florida officials from punishing our client, Kells ...

A Biden-Zuckerberg Alliance Against “Misinformation” Should Scare Everyone

July 16, 2021   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

On Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed that the Biden administration is in “regular touch” with social media platforms to identify ...

Assumptions Gone Awry: New Book Casts Further Doubt on “Appearance of Corruption” Legal Standard

In an insightful new book, The Appearance of Corruption: Testing the Supreme Court’s Assumptions about Campaign Finance Reform, three political scientists examine the Court's ...

Transcript of the FEC Discussion of the Draft Statement of Policy Regarding Closing the File at the Initial Stage in the Enforcement Process

July 1, 2021   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,

At a late April open meeting of the Federal Election Commission, the agency’s six commissioners discussed a proposed policy to close the file at ...

Campaign Finance Laws Scare Horror Game Developer into Early Retirement

June 17, 2021   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  , ,

The purpose of the public reporting of contributions is to stop corruption and to inform the electorate about the sources of candidates’ financial support ...

Proponents Say H.R. 1 and S. 1 Will End “Dark Money.” They Won’t.

June 16, 2021   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , , ,

If a bill fails to pass in every session of Congress for a decade because groups across the ideological spectrum oppose its constitutional infirmities, ...

Groups Across Political Spectrum Unite to Fight Anti-Citizen Privacy Provisions in H.R. 1 and S. 1

June 14, 2021   •  By Tiffany Donnelly   •  , , ,

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently told reporters that the Senate will vote in late June on Democrats’ sprawling bill package that will radically ...

Introducing Summer Fellow Haley Gluhanich

June 10, 2021   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,

The Institute for Free Speech is honored to welcome Haley Gluhanich as a 2021 Summer Fellow. In this role, Haley will spend her time ...

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