New at Reason: Damon Root on Citizens United and the Trouble with Conservative Judicial Restraint

February 5, 2010

Dissenting last month in the landmark free speech case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens lambasted the conservative majority for “bypassing or ignoring rules of judicial restraint.” But as Associate Editor Damon Root writes, if the Court had followed the misguided, pro-government bias of judicial restraint, it would have provided zero protection for free speech.

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