Even as disclosure laws have grown more expansive, technology has made them easier to abuse.

America’s response to foreign interference must respect constitutional rights.

Handing over the reins to government will destroy free expression on Facebook.

The FEC’s bipartisan and deliberative structure is critical for an agency that regulates sensitive core First Amendment-protected activities.

In an increasingly connected world, the risk of surveillance stifling speech is higher than ever. Protecting First Amendment rights in the 21st century calls for ...

Can the government ban political speech based on the identity of the speaker, or the mechanism that the speaker uses to communicate to fellow ...

Giving the equivalent of government-funded steroids to campaigns will not create a level playing field. It will just make elections more costly, more ad-driven, ...

The question of what should be regulated as "political" speech may be new to Facebook, but it has vexed campaign finance reformers for decades.

We have never accepted that the government — or our neighbors — have a broad right to know about our political activities.

Running for office and making speeches before one runs for office are core First Amendment rights. The FEC’s “testing the waters” rule unconstitutionally burdens ...

The Institute for Free Speech released the following statement in response to yesterday's tweet by Congressman Joaquin Castro exposing Americans who donated to President ...

The Institute for Free Speech today filed an amicus brief in the online speech and press rights case, The Washington Post, et al. v. ...

The Institute for Free Speech released the following statement in response to today’s decision in Libertarian National Committee v. FEC. The en banc D.C. ...

A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional South Dakota Initiated Measure 24, a state law which would have banned Americans from other states from contributing ...

A coalition of South Dakota media associations, trade associations, a nonprofit advocacy group, and a former South Dakota resident yesterday filed a lawsuit in ...

This Friday morning, Institute for Free Speech Legal Director Allen Dickerson will argue before all eleven judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ...

The Institute for Free Speech and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) yesterday filed an amicus brief stating that an Arkansas law ...

The Institute for Free Speech today published a first-of-its-kind survey of campaign speech regulations and grassroots lobbying laws that implicate First Amendment freedoms. The ...

The Institute for Free Speech released the following statement in response to today's vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass H.R. 1, ...

A friend-of-the-court brief filed last night by the Institute for Free Speech (IFS) argued that a federal judge erred in slamming the door to ...

Supreme Court Reason: Conservative Justices Are Political Hacks, Five Senators Argue While Urging SCOTUS to Drop a Second Amendment Case By Jacob Sullum The idea ...

Supreme Court National Review: To Save a Bad Gun Law, Democratic Senators Threaten the Supreme Court By David French Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Mazie Hirono, Richard ...

The Courts Courthouse News Service: Conservative Students in First Amendment Case Over Use of Student Fees By Bianca Bruno California State University’s process of allocating mandatory ...

Supreme Court The Hill: Campaign finance expert on how to get money out of politics (Video) Election Law Professor Richard Hasen discusses what might be ...

Free Speech Reason: Democrats Join Trump in Seeking Balance by Policing Speech By Jacob Sullum Donald Trump wants to regulate social media, while Democrats want ...

In the News National Review: We Need Donor-Privacy Legislation Now By Jeremy Carl Janice Rogers Brown, a former judge on the D.C. court of appeals, cogently ...

In the News National Review: Doxing Trump Donors Is Just the Beginning By Bradley A. Smith The Supreme Court has permitted mandatory disclosure of contributions to ...

In the News LifeZette: Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff Resigns – Is Under Federal Investigation By The Political Insider Staff Saikat Chakrabarti, according to The New York ...

New from the Institute for Free Speech Contribution Limits Harm State and Local Leaders Running for President By Mark D’Ostilio Under FEC rules, presidential candidates ...

In the News Epoch Times: Senator Kamala Harris’s Rise Fueled by Big Money Donations, Including Donald Trump By Masooma Haq To solicit donations for her presidential ...