The language of the First Amendment is clear, but that hasn’t stopped politicians from passing laws that whittle away at it — always in the name of some “compelling governmental interest” of course.
In this column Jacob Sullum takes a look at the case the Supreme Court just heard involving the Federal Election Commission’s attack on a group that had the nerve to show a movie critical of Hillary Clinton. The idiotic McCain-Feingold campaign finance law has put us on a slippery slope with regard to free political expression. Will the Supreme Court claw us back to the top by declaring the whole thing unconstitutional? It should, but probably won’t.
