{"id":4271,"date":"2010-01-21T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2010-01-21T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:25:33","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-free-speech-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/supreme-court-upholds-free-speech-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Modern day movies, television comedies, or skits onYoutube.com might portray public officials or public policies in unflattering ways. Yet if a covered transmission during the blackout period creates the background for candidate endorsement or opposition, a felony occurs solely because a corporation, other than an exempt mediacorporation, has made the \u201cpurchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value\u201d in order to engage in political speech. 2 U. S. C. \u00a7431(9)(A)(i). Speech would be suppressed in the realm where its necessity is most evident: in the public dialogue preceding a real election. Governments are often hostile to speech, but under our law and our tradition it seems stranger than fiction for our Government to make this political speech a crime. Yet this is the statute\u2019s purpose and design. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/09pdf\/08-205.pdf\"><strong>&#8212; <em>Citizens United v. FEC<\/em>, January 21, 2010<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern day movies, television comedies, or skits onYoutube.com might portray public officials or public policies in unflattering ways. Yet if a covered transmission during the blackout period creates the background for candidate endorsement or opposition, a felony occurs solely because a corporation, other than an exempt mediacorporation, has made the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights - Politickles","description":"Modern day movies, television comedies, or skits onYoutube.com might portray public officials or public policies in unflattering ways. Yet if a covered transmis"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,2235,2236,1407,49,2234,513],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-citizens-united-v-fec","tag-citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-political-speech","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}