Trump’s Campaign Finance Catch-22

August 23, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, has pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance rules—those malleable laws that regulate how much of their own ...

Institute for Free Speech examines First Amendment record of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh

August 21, 2018   •  By Matt Nese   •  ,

The Institute for Free Speech undertook a thorough analysis of the First Amendment record of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. IFS’s ...

Gov. Steve Bullock’s nosy lawsuit to make the IRS collect more of your data

August 20, 2018   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , , ,

People often advise against “making a federal case” out of minor grievances. Someone in your neighborhood has a noisy dog? By all means mention ...

Money spent in Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation battle is good for democracy

August 16, 2018   •  By David Keating   •  , ,

America enters a generational Supreme Court nomination battle divided. But one aspect of the fight over nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh shows our democracy is ...

The Strange World of Kavanaugh Opposition

August 1, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Of all the attacks on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, perhaps the silliest is that he would open the door to foreign money in ...

Protecting privacy of nonprofit donors is key to our democracy

July 30, 2018   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

Can Americans protect their privacy and their elections at the same time? Cynical politicians around the country say no. The rest of us should ...

You Can’t Fight Hate With Censorship, Says Former ACLU President

July 30, 2018   •  By Zac Morgan   •  ,

By Zac Morgan Just recently, a federal court in Oregon prevented a public high school from banning an anti-immigration T-shirt from its campus, notwithstanding the ...

Cato: NAACP v. Alabama and Associational Privacy (Podcast) (In the News)

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July 26, 2018   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,

Featuring Bradley A. Smith and Caleb O. Brown What does a decades-old ruling on the First Amendment tell us about the right of associational privacy ...

The IRS gives up power for once, and the Left goes nuts

July 24, 2018   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

By Bradley A. Smith The decision to stop gathering some donor information seems, on the surface, like a no-brainer. First, the IRS neither used nor ...

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