New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Corporate Speech Restrictions

September 2, 2009

Next week, for the second time, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that poses the question of whether the Federal Election Commission violated the First Amendment when it blocked pay-per-view distribution of a critical documentary about Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary season. Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues that the Court should overturn the federal ban on "electioneering communications," which was the basis for the FEC's censorship, and repudiate its constitutional rationale: the notion that the marketplace of ideas should be regulated to prevent some speakers from gaining an unfair advantage over others.

Read all about it here.