National Organization for Marriage v. McKee

BENCH TRIAL DECISION AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

D. BROCK HORNBY, District Judge.

This case pits an advocacy organization’s First Amendment right to engage in political speech free of regulation against the voting public’s right to know who is speaking about candidates for state and local office. It comes in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 1 that “[g]overnment may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether.” 2

The advocacy…