Sean Parnell of the Center for Competitive Politics got this letter to the editor published in today’s Times. The letter refers to a piece of government lawyer Malcolm L. Stewart’s argument before the Supreme Court in Citizens United. Defending campaign finance restrictions that limited the ability of a documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton from being […]
The Post reports that an interesting First Amendment case involving a police officer providing information to a reporter was reinstated after a lower court threw out the case. [Michael] Andrew, a Baltimore Police major, gave the Sun a memo in which he questioned whether police used excessive force in the shooting of Cephus Smith, who […]
The Post reports that the Supreme Court denied cert in a case (Virginia v. Jaynes) involving Virginia’s anti-spam law. I wrote about the case in September 2008 here because the case involved freedom of speech and might provide a limited context for courts’ consideration of laws purporting to regulate political calls (robocalls or calls made through […]