Campaign finance laws are often heralded as positive reform — but there’s a much darker side to those laws — they often limit free expression of political speech. Over at Cato, they’ve prepared a video to discuss aspects of a case involving the Federal Election Commission’s presumed entitlement to regulate political speech, a case now before the U.S. Supreme Court —
Campaign finance laws become a way by which government — and its incumbent politicians — can regulate messages they dislike in circumvention of First Amendment protections.
For more information on the case, see the Scotus Wiki‘s entry on the case,
http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commission.