Amicus Brief

“Speech concerning public affairs is more than self-expression; it is the essence of self government[,]” and heightened constitutional protections apply to such expressions regardless ...

The Measure limits contributions to candidates and to groups making independent expenditures. The Oregon Supreme Court, however, has held that the Oregon constitution can ...

The First Amendment protects the right of all Americans to “to pursue their lawful private interests privately and to associate freely with others in ...

The Institute for Free Speech’s amicus brief asks a federal court to allow an Arkansas citizen to make campaign contributions within legal limits. Arkansas ...

This case, Thompson v. Hebdon, challenges Alaska’s $500 per election cycle limit on contributions from individuals to legislative and gubernatorial candidates. It also challenges ...

Maryland’s law requires press entities and Internet advertisers to amass vast amounts of information—every buyer of advertisements and their underlying donors—in order to possibly ...

Like contributions and expenditures, a law firm’s pro bono representation of a citizen activist facilitates political speech and is thus protected by the First ...

Political boycotts combine associational and expressive activities that are each protected by the First Amendment. And, just as the political boycott is more than ...

In August 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a 37-year old Federal Election Commission regulation that limited donor ...

The Institute filed an amicus brief urging the court to limit the Texas Citizens Participation Act (“TCPA”) under the First Amendment to situations where ...