Disclosure

Before Buckley v. Valeo, American citizens faced criminal charges for urging Nixon’s impeachment.

The Court's defense of political speech remains essential to American democracy five decades later.

The landmark decision recognized that effective political speech requires the ability to pool resources and communicate at scale.

A friend profiles Buckley himself, a public servant who spent his life defending constitutional first principles.

An original Buckley litigator shares the inside story of one of America’s most important political speech victories.

Do you believe in magic words?

How the decision did and did not change the world.

What social science can tell us.

Buckley v. Valeo confines campaign finance regulation to actual corruption, rather than amorphous claims about “undue influence.”

Those who blame Buckley for our current problems are wrong to do so. A contrary decision would have made things worse.