Paul Sherman
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- Let's Talk About Really Big Money
November 6, 2012 - An Overlooked First Amendment Dissent
August 22, 2012 - Free Speech v. FEC
June 15, 2012 - States in which Citizens United made no difference demand it be reversed
May 22, 2012 - Super PACs Turn Two!
March 26, 2012 - We Hate to Say We Told You So . . .
March 6, 2012 - Brad Smith: SCOTUS Justices Don’t “Speak Truth to Power.” They ARE Power.
February 21, 2012 - The Parents of Super PACs Speak Out
February 13, 2012 - I Guess “Virtually All Super PAC Money Traceable” Didn’t Have the Same Ring to It
February 9, 2012 - E.J. Dionne Gets It Wrong on Citizens United. Again.
February 8, 2012 - Apparently Money Only Corrupts People Who Support Free Speech
February 8, 2012 - “Money Isn’t Speech” and “Corporations Aren’t People.” So What?
February 6, 2012 - Colbert’s Super PAC Surprisingly Un-Super
February 3, 2012 - How “Reformers” Shot Themselves in the Foot on Super PAC Disclosure
February 1, 2012 - Citizens United Turns Two
January 20, 2012 - But Microsoft Can’t Even Get Married!
January 20, 2012 - Wendy Kaminer: Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren Want to Shut People Up
January 20, 2012 - An Abbreviated History of “Super PACs”
January 19, 2012 - Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Noncitizen Speech
January 10, 2012 - IJ-Slovenia?
December 19, 2011 - Responding to POGO’s Ben Freeman on Bluman v. FEC
December 16, 2011 - Taking Citizens United Seriously: Why Hasen Is Wrong About Foreign Speech
December 6, 2011 - Lobbyists Aren’t the Problem
November 21, 2011 - Victory for Free Speech! AZ Judge Frees Grassroots Group to Speak Before Election
November 4, 2011 - IJ Files Brief in Important Follow-up to Citizens United
October 5, 2011 - CCP Scores a Win for Political Speech in Indiana
September 28, 2011 - Setting the Record Straight on “Super PACs”
August 19, 2011 - Must Read: CCP’s Brad Smith on “The strange case of W. Spann, LLC”
August 5, 2011 - Want Competitive Elections? Another Unconstitutional Campaign Finance Law Won’t Help.
August 4, 2011 - How Campaign Finance Laws Lead to Media Censorship
July 25, 2011 - Another IJ First Amendment Victory! Washington Court Freezes Unconstitutional Funding Limits for Recall Campaigns
July 15, 2011 - First Amendment Victory! IJ Wins Big in St. Louis Sign Case
July 13, 2011 - Must Read: James Taranto on the First Amendment & “The Kagan Principle”
July 5, 2011 - Watch: Cato's John Samples on Stephen Colbert's Super PAC
July 2, 2011 - Reflections on the 4th of July: They pledged their fortunes
July 1, 2011 - Free Speech Wins! IJ & Goldwater Score Major Supreme Court Victory
June 27, 2011 - Bureaucrats vs. the Internet: Election Regulators Target Facebook
June 17, 2011 - D.C. Federal Court Hands Down Victory for Free Speech
June 16, 2011 - IJ's Steve Simpson in WSJ: John Edwards Is Not a Criminal
June 16, 2011 - Watch: Nat Hentoff on Anonymous Speech
June 13, 2011 - FEC Commissioner Don McGahn Speaks Truth to Inanity
May 24, 2011 - “Stephen Colbert’s Free Speech Problem”
May 19, 2011 - Bluman Groups? D.C. Court Hears Important Case About Noncitizens and the First Amendment
May 13, 2011 - “Political Privacy Should Be a Civil Right”
April 28, 2011 - “Reformers” respond to charges of name-calling with . . . more name-calling
April 13, 2011 - FEC Commissioner delivers must-read First Amendment smackdown
April 12, 2011 - “The reality is that public disclosure serves the interests of incumbents”
April 11, 2011 - Listen to IJ’s Bill Maurer Argue AZ Clean Election Case at the U.S. Supreme Court
April 1, 2011 - Recap of Arizona Clean Elections argument
March 28, 2011 - Responding to Fried & Sloan on Arizona Clean Elections
March 27, 2011 - Responding to Rick Hasen on Arizona Clean Elections
March 25, 2011 - Why Do Newspapers Support Westboro Baptist, but Not Citizens United?
March 3, 2011 - Public Campaign Action Fund Manufactures Scandal in Wisconsin, Part 2
February 25, 2011 - Public Campaign Action Fund Manufactures Scandal in Wisconsin
February 24, 2011 - Justice Thomas Is Biased in Favor of Free Speech
February 16, 2011 - Adam Liptak on the Meaning of the Press Clause
February 7, 2011 - Is political speech now a second-class citizen under the First Amendment?
February 1, 2011 - Stay Classy, PFAW.
January 20, 2011 - Recycling Is Now a Campaign Finance Violation
January 18, 2011 - Free Speech Is Not a "Problem of Democracy"
January 14, 2011 - The “Reform” View: We Need Regulation Because You Vote Incorrectly
December 10, 2010 - CCP releases post-2010 policy agenda
December 8, 2010 - Federalist Society Panel on Anonymity and Political Speech
December 6, 2010 - N.Y. Times Stands Up for Corporate Speech
November 15, 2010 - Major Victory for Citizen Speech: Tenth Circuit Strikes Down Campaign Finance Laws for Grassroots Groups
November 10, 2010 - Just how complicated are campaign finance laws?
October 28, 2010 - Who's Afraid of Foreign Speakers?
October 12, 2010 - Don't Blame Citizens United for More Campaign Spending. Blame Unpopular Politicians.
October 8, 2010 - When Citizen Speech Is Against the Law
September 30, 2010 - Criticize a Politician and He’ll Come Shout Through Your Mail Slot
September 26, 2010 - test post
September 7, 2010 - Campaign Finance Laws as Weapons
September 3, 2010 - The Latest Unconstitutional Speech Restriction: The Shareholder Protection Act
August 3, 2010 - The Regulator’s Impulse
August 2, 2010 - Breaking News: Eleventh Circuit Enjoins Matching Funds in Florida
July 30, 2010 - Great News for Free Speech
July 29, 2010 - Appeal filed in SpeechNow.org v. FEC
July 23, 2010 - “Reformers” Throwing in the Towel on Matching Funds
July 14, 2010 - Voters Still Call the Shots
July 13, 2010 - Effects of IJ Litigation Being Felt Nationwide
July 9, 2010 - The First Amendment: It’s Not Just for People with Journalism Degrees
July 6, 2010 - They Pledged Their Fortunes
July 4, 2010 - Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Soft-Money Ban
June 29, 2010 - At Least He's Honest
June 25, 2010 - Supreme Court Decides Doe v. Reed
June 24, 2010 - Discouraging Speech with Free Money for Political Opponents
June 24, 2010
