Election Security Defenses Are Stronger, Crucial Work Continues
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding election security:read more
View ArticleCourts come to defense of free speech in New Jersey, New York
Free speech recently scored big victories in federal court against laws passed in New York and New Jersey that would have kneecapped nonprofits. The two laws set up a maze of rules for any group...
View ArticleReason: Alito Faults Supreme Court for Refusing to Hear Disfavored Speech Case
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a pair of cases that together raise fundamental questions about what sort of protections the First Amendment offers to journalists and pundits who...
View ArticleThis piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal on January 20, 2020.
Mr. Obama was wrong in almost every respect about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which the court decided on Jan.read more
View ArticleCity Journal: Voters Arent For Sale
The political world is practically giddy at the failed campaigns of Michael and Tom Steyer. The Democratic primary’s billionaire candidates rediscovered an age-old truth: money can’t buy love.read more
View ArticleWatchdog Sues to Force Facebook to Reveal Political Ad Sponsor
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed a lawsuit to enable it to subpoena Facebook for information on America Progress Now. The CLC sued the Federal Election Commission for failing to act on the...
View ArticleThis piece originally appeared in National Review on February 7, 2020.
The IRS isn’t known for respecting privacy. Under the Obama administration, IRS bureaucrats famously — or infamously — harassed Tea Party groups and their supporters. Decades earlier, the agency...
View ArticleThis piece, co-authored with John R. Lott Jr., originally appeared in the...
House Democrats held a panicked hearing this month about how to respond to the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which upheld the right of corporations to...
View ArticleStatement on Confirmation of FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor
Washington, DC ? The Institute for Free Speech released the following statement in response to today?s vote by the Senate to confirm Texas attorney Trey Trainor to the Federal Election Commission. The...
View ArticleDaily Media Links 5/20
Washington Post: Senate confirms Trump appointee to Federal Election Commission, restoring panel?s voting quorum for first time since August.read more
View ArticleReuters: For Supreme Court, COVID-19 response is pretty challenging:...
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it was postponing oral arguments in all of the cases it was scheduled to hear in April…read more
View ArticleThis piece originally appeared in the Washington Examiner on March 2, 2020.
There’s a lot more to winning elections than dominating the airwaves. Yet every election cycle it seems there’s a wealthy candidate — or two, or three — who believes he can advertise his way to...
View ArticleJustice Department Will Monitor State and Local Pandemic Policies for Civil...
Attorney General Bill Barr today issued a memo directing all U.S. attorneys to examine state and local policies for directives that could violate the constitutional rights and civil liberties of...
View ArticleCriminalizing Protests Is a Dangerous Idea
Despite the Constitution granting us the right to peaceful assembly, many states have been pushing forth laws to make that a crime. That’s not only a bad idea but an incredibly dangerous one.read more
View ArticleAmericans for Tax Reform (podcast):
Nancy Pelosi & House Democrats went after citizen privacy & free speech with their coronavirus bill, highlighting just how at-risk freedom of speech is. Many state governments also have...
View ArticleThis piece originally appeared in City Journal on March 12, 2020.
The political world is practically giddy at the failed campaigns of Michael and Tom Steyer. The Democratic primary’s billionaire candidates rediscovered an age-old truth: money can’t buy love.read more
View ArticleRuling clears pretrial hurdle in retaliation case filed by Wilkes-Barre...
The retaliation case filed by two Wilkes-Barre police officers cleared a pretrial hurdle this week with a federal judge’s ruling they were protected by the First Amendment when speaking out about...
View ArticleCharlottesvilles Violence a Failure of Its Government
Former Charlottesville, Va., Mayor Michael Signer’s essay “How Free Speech Dogma Failed Us in Charlottesville” (Review, March 14) pins the blame in the wrong place. The violence wasn’t a failure of the...
View ArticleRepublican National Lawyers Association: The Real Effects of Citizens United
As we reflect on the last decade of Citizens United, it is important to cut through the hysteria of the current political climate and look at the real effects of this case. Former FEC Chairman Bradley...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Gives Green Light To Seattles Democracy Vouchers Giving...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Elster v. Seattle, a case challenging Seattle’s “Democracy Vouchers”, a program that uses property taxes to give city residents a $100 coupon for donating to...
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