Tenth Circuit Ruling Threatens Freedom of Association: Says Government Can Tell Parties How to Choose Their Leaders

June 1, 2018   •  By Owen Yeates   •  ,

Can the government control a private organization’s identity, leaders, and message? In a decision threatening all three of these First Amendment liberties, a divided ...

Debunking Three Myths about the “Honest Ads Act”

May 30, 2018   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

The deceptively-named “Honest Ads Act” is a proposal in Congress that would increase regulations for paid political and issue advertising on the Internet – ...

Dark Money: The Courts Awaken

May 21, 2018   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

“This is like the Death Star. In Star Wars, they didn’t go fight the evil empire on every single planet. They went after the ...

Americans Support Speech Regulation… If They Are Not Told the Facts Surrounding It

May 18, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , , ,

Last week, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), a news outlet biased in favor of greater political speech regulation, touted recent polling by the ...

No, OpenSecrets, Nonprofits Are Not “Fueling” an Increase in Political Ads

May 16, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

Understanding election spending can be difficult. Complex campaign finance laws and numerous categories of political giving and spending are enough to make your eyes ...

Did a D.C. Federal Court Fail the “Major Purpose Test”?

May 14, 2018   •  By Mike Columbo   •  , , ,

A recent opinion by Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. poses new risks for advocacy groups and their ...

Distrusting “Suspicious” Online Ads Is No Excuse for Restricting Americans’ Free Speech

May 7, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

A new study is being hyped as evidence that the government needs to police the First Amendment on social media. This month, the Campaign ...

Democracy Faces Many Challenges, But Free Speech is Not One of Them

May 3, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

On Tuesday, the Brookings Institution held an event entitled “Democracy’s resilience: Is America’s democracy threatened?” During the event, a panel of scholars discussed trends ...

Free Speech Doesn’t “Drown Out” Other Voices

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April 5, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

This week, Katrina vanden Heuvel penned an op-ed in The Washington Post alleging that “big and dark money” are “drown[ing] out” the voices of ...

Free Speech is Free Speech, Regardless of Whether it Advances One’s Societal Goals

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March 28, 2018   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

Last week, FiveThirtyEight published an article analyzing the First Amendment jurisprudence of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. While the overall thrust of the ...

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