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Revisiting Citizens United decision: Not as harmful as feared, and actually provides a 1st Amendment rationale for curbing super PACs

[…] purchase of TV and radio ads or otherwise) by combining one's contribution with those of others is outside the zone of First Amendment protection and subject to government limits. Gorge Soros, on his own, is therefore free to spend millions to benefit President Barak Obama. So is Warren Buffett. However, Soros and Buffett may […]

June 1, 2012
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[…] October 11, 2006, I received an e-mail message from an organization calling itself the California First Amendment Coalition. The message header was "Flash: First Amendment and Open Government News," surely something I'd be interested in reading. The body of the message was a re-print of the current lead article, Vol. 16, no. 16, on […]

June 2, 2009
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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

Donal Brown
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
November 11, 2009
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Nonprofits to downsizing law firms: Loan us your laid off junior lawyers; we'll return them when the economy recovers

[…] example, consider the California First Amendment Coalition, the organization I am associated with. We need a staff litigator to initiate and handle important free speech and access-to- government cases across the state. To hire a lawyer would require our securing a foundation grant for that purpose--no small feat in the current economy and, in […]

June 3, 2009
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Ninth Circuit Refuses to Rehear Honking-As-Speech Case

[…] 2018, the federal lawsuit asserts a First Amendment right to freedom of expression through horn use. In February 2021, the district court ruled in favor of the government, finding Section 27001 is a permissible, content-neutral regulation. On appeal before a panel of the Ninth Circuit, Porter’s attorneys argued that the statute is a content-based […]
- Free Expression
May 23, 2023
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Media heroism turned on its head: The real Manning scandal

[…] disdain and showed the bottomless suffering the war inflicted on the innocents it was supposed to save. With the Pentagon Papers, newspapers defied secrecy rules to expose government lies. With Watergate, reporters forced out a corrupt president. True, that retelling is a bit of myth-spinning; the media never were quite that gutsy. But myths […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 20, 2013
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Maybe summoning the press before Parliament isn’t such a bad idea

[…] country. Maybe we would all benefit from having our news media leaders join the public policy debate over bloated official secrecy and runaway surveillance, and denounce the government’s current campaign to literally lock up the news media’s most precious asset, its sources. Compared with the British approach, the U.S. alternative, I’m afraid, isn’t a […]
- Press Freedom
December 18, 2013
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Major newspapers back CFAC/MAPlight lawsuit to expand public access to Legislative actions

[…] to change it. On Friday, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, suggested that a resolution may be coming soon. "When there is no additional burden on government to turn over the information in a user-friendly format, we ought to be stretching and going out of our way to do that," Steinberg said by […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
June 2, 2009
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Justice Roberts Saved the Supreme Court — Here’s What He Needs to Do Next

[…] justices unhappy about his supposed eleventh-hour conversion to the administration's side, underscore the Court's vulnerability to the same polarization that has neutered the rest of the federal government. What can the Court do to shore up its legitimacy in a world in which the Glenn Becks and Keith Olbermanns are in ascendancy? Answer: It […]

July 11, 2012
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Guest Commentary: Did the Media go too far in Disclosing a Secret Dossier on Russia’s supposed “kompromat” against Trump? Nyet.

[…] and Russian intelligence services; about compromising x-rated videos of Trump in the company of prostitutes during a 2013 trip to Moscow; about alleged financial inducements from Putin’s government to Trump; etc. But, on the whole, the news media handled this story responsibly in the face of difficult choices. For months the New York Times, […]
- Press Freedom
November 15, 2016