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 way to counter corruption and check the influence of entrenched power is not to pry open the donor files of organizations, but to ...

Unfortunately, the first bill proposed in the 2019 Congress will destroy the FEC’s bipartisanship.

Transparency is for government; privacy is for citizens.

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 ...

In the News St. Louis Public Radio: Full Federal Appeals Court To Decide Whether Unpaid Lobbyists In Missouri Must Register By Rachel Lippmann A federal appeals ...

In the News Arkansas Times: Arkansas Times joined in law challenge by friends of First Amendment By Max Brantley Briefs are stacking up in support of ...

In the News Fortune: Democrats Keep Rejecting Corporate PAC Money. But Is It Just for Show? By Natasha Bach Michael Williams, founder of the public policy ...

The Courts Politico: Court paves way for FEC to reveal anonymous $1.7 million super PAC donor By Maggie Severns While investigating a complaint from the ...