Are Campaign Donations ‘Free Speech’?
April 2, 2014
Clearly not, it seems to me, despite los Supremos. Of course, people interested in electoral politics should be able to spend as much money as they want promoting or denouncing one power-luster as versus another, or 100 of them. But how is paying a government candidate of a government political party in a government election to rule us “speech”?
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