Saturday, November 15, 2008

McCain-Feingold vs. free speech

In the congressional politics class I teach, we've just covered the campaign finance unit. Conflicts over the meaning of free speech when you can regulate campaign finance --- especially when it affects the advocacy behavior of citizens --- are inevitable. Here's a story in the New York Times about the SC taking a case that will determine whether a movie with a strong political message ("Hillary is dangerous!!!!") has to "stand by its ad."

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