YES. While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech. Speech is only one of the activities that are financed by campaign contributions and expenditures. Those financial activities should not receive precisely the same constitutional protections as speech itself. After all, campaign funds were used to finance the Watergate burglary, actions that clearly were not protected by the First Amendment. -- Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 18:18:48 +0000
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