It may not be getting as much attention as the ruling on Proposition 8 but another California court (the famously liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals) made some waves recently by deciding that there is a right to lie. Pending an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, people in the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit now have the ability to make false statements under First Amendment grounds. Read More

It's probably best to deal with the snickering up front, so here goes. Read More

Arizona’s “Clean Elections” act punished privately-funded candidates by rendering their fundraising moot — for every dollar a privately-funded candidate spent, taxpayers would be forced to kick in a dollar for the candidate who receives public funds. Read More

As heartening as was Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the 5-4 majority in the Citizens United v Federal Election Commission case before the Supreme Court, there are aspects of Justice John Paul Stevens dissent that are anything but encouraging. Stevens adopts a view that if adopted by the Court could do tremendous damage to freedom of political speech in this country, according to Mark Fitzgibbons, a Virginia attorney, writing on American Thinker. Read More