Add to ORKGIssue advocacy communications have become increasingly popular in recent federal election cycles. These advertisements are often interpreted to favor or disfavor certain candidates, while also serving to inform the public about a policy issue. However, unlike communications that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, the Supreme Court has determined that issue ads are constitutionally protected First Amendment speech that cannot be regulated in any manner. According to most lower court rulings, only speech containing express words of advocacy of election or defeat, also known as "express advocacy" or "magic words" can be regulated as election-related communications and therefore be subject to the requir...
Recent developments - such as a wave of FEC enforcement actions, the FEC\u27s publication of its cas...
You\u27ve no doubt seen many ads that attack a candidate for his or her character or actions. Such a...
In 2004 the country witnessed the first presidential election since the passage of the Bipartisan Ca...
Issue advocacy communications have become increasingly popular in recent federal election cycles. Th...
Although government entities frequently engage in issue-related campaign speech on a variety of cont...
Commercial slogans and trademarks are increasingly finding their way into every aspect of the Americ...
In the 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the United States Supreme Court ...
Freedom of speech is one of our most valued rights; however, it is also one of the most contentious....
This Note will argue that even if money is not speech for First Amendment purposes, campaign contrib...
In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court invalidated two provisions of the Federal Election Camp...
The First Amendment doctrine governing campaign finance law allows judicial outcomes to turn on ofte...
In the campaign finance realm, we are in the age of the imperial First Amendment. Over the past nine...
Campaign finance reform has become the Vietnam of First Amendment theory and doctrine. Or perhaps, i...
Recent studies have demonstrated that massive one-sided spending in opposition to ballot measures ha...
In the closing weeks of the 1996 election, Montana\u27s airwaves were flooded with the following tel...
Recent developments - such as a wave of FEC enforcement actions, the FEC\u27s publication of its cas...
You\u27ve no doubt seen many ads that attack a candidate for his or her character or actions. Such a...
In 2004 the country witnessed the first presidential election since the passage of the Bipartisan Ca...
Issue advocacy communications have become increasingly popular in recent federal election cycles. Th...
Although government entities frequently engage in issue-related campaign speech on a variety of cont...
Commercial slogans and trademarks are increasingly finding their way into every aspect of the Americ...
In the 2010 case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the United States Supreme Court ...
Freedom of speech is one of our most valued rights; however, it is also one of the most contentious....
This Note will argue that even if money is not speech for First Amendment purposes, campaign contrib...
In Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court invalidated two provisions of the Federal Election Camp...
The First Amendment doctrine governing campaign finance law allows judicial outcomes to turn on ofte...
In the campaign finance realm, we are in the age of the imperial First Amendment. Over the past nine...
Campaign finance reform has become the Vietnam of First Amendment theory and doctrine. Or perhaps, i...
Recent studies have demonstrated that massive one-sided spending in opposition to ballot measures ha...
In the closing weeks of the 1996 election, Montana\u27s airwaves were flooded with the following tel...
Recent developments - such as a wave of FEC enforcement actions, the FEC\u27s publication of its cas...
You\u27ve no doubt seen many ads that attack a candidate for his or her character or actions. Such a...
In 2004 the country witnessed the first presidential election since the passage of the Bipartisan Ca...