We should oppose Ken Buck’s rotten proposal to dismantle the FEC

May 16, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Imagine you are a Republican. Would you agree to let the rules of political campaigns be written by a partisan committee selected by Barack ...

Is the Supreme Court about to give state and local political parties a boost?

May 10, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  , , ,

By Bradley A. Smith As part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" of 2002, virtually everything these local parties do was brought into the web ...

Brad Smith: Prevent the reckless restructuring of the FEC

May 1, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Imagine you are a Republican. Would you agree to let the rules of political campaigns be written by a partisan committee selected by Barack ...

Stop Using ‘Special Interests’ As An Insult

April 27, 2017   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , ,

Commentators have debated for months what President Donald Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp” really means. Many believe that the “swamp” represents so-called “special ...

Courts should undo this dumb, unfair rule on campaign finance

April 11, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Campaign finance laws often raise difficult questions about the intersection of free speech and elections, but not every case is a tough one. Some ...

Money doesn’t buy elections and elections aren’t rigged. Period.

March 28, 2017   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , ,

Searching for “rigged election” in Google News turns up “about 288,000 results.” Add “Trump” to the search and you get “about 342,000” hits. Enough ...

Trump’s America should force the left to embrace corporate speech

March 20, 2017   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , , ,

This piece originally appeared in The Hill on March 19, 2017.   With confirmation hearings for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch fast ...

The truth about Gorsuch’s record on ‘money in politics’

March 16, 2017   •  By David Keating   •  ,

Democrats and progressives are losing their minds over President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. One left-wing advocacy group released a video titled “3 ...

Gorsuch Understands How Bureaucratic Bullies Harm First Amendment Rights

March 14, 2017   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

One of the major threats to free speech today is not censorship. It’s harassment. Here’s how it works. People join or give money to ...

Trump is Right: Destroy The Johnson Amendment

March 14, 2017   •  By David Keating   •  ,

By David Keating Despite some hysterical reactions, the truth is that, as it stands, the Johnson Amendment is horribly written. It chills vital speech in ...

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