Corporate Accountability
TV (HuffPost Live): Are Corporations Hijacking The First Amendment?
It’s been nearly 40 years since Ralph Nader convinced the Supreme Court to protect commercial speech, but from campaign finance restrictions to smoking labels, corporations are now using the First Amendment to take down regulations they don’t like. CAC’s Elizabeth Wydra joins Eugene Volokh and Alan Morrision to discuss commercial speech and the First Amendment.
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