Monday, January 19, 2015

Supreme Court to hear case on Freedom of Speech, campaign $ and judicial elections.




"If campaign money is a threat to judicial impartiality, but the First Amendment is understood to treat political money as speech, how far can states go to regulate it?  The Supreme Court is no stranger to the abiding controversy over money in politics, and takes that up again this week in a Florida judicial election case."  The Supreme Court will be asked to determine if the usual rules of Citizens United and other cases apply, or should government be able to apply additional restrictions when it  is judges being elected?  Given that the government interest in arguably stronger than the case for regular office seekers, a good case can be make to  uphold the rules.

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