This post is my contribution to the Institute for Free Speech symposium on the 50th anniversary of Buckley v. Valeo, which is jointly published by IFS and the Volokh Conspiracy blog: This year marks ...

America just passed the 50th anniversary of one of its truly terrible days — one that future historians can track as the beginning of the end of our democracy. On Jan. 30, 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

James Buckley was a wonderful man and a model public servant. He will be remembered for so many remarkable accomplishments. And perhaps highest on the list was his being the lead plaintiff in the ...

Francis R. "Frank" Valeo, 90, a former secretary of the U.S. Senate and, by chance, the defendant in Buckley v. Valeo, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that likened money to freedom of expression and set ...

America just passed the 50th anniversary of one of its truly terrible days — one that future historians can track as the beginning of the end of our democracy. On Jan. 30, 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

This week marks 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark political speech case of Buckley v. Valeo. This case established that expenditures by political candidates, campaigns ...

Individuals and corporations alike can spend infinite sums of money to influence elections and push candidates that will support and – at the very least – not oppose their interests. The Supreme Court ...