Frank v. City of Akron

DISSENT FROM DENIAL OF REHEARING EN BANC

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Under the First Amendment, citizens have very broad rights to attempt to persuade their neighbors of the correctness of social and political propositions, and even to attempt to advance those views by supporting the election of candidates to public office. While cases such as Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 96 S.Ct. 612, 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976), and Nixon v. Shrink Mo. Gov’t PAC, 528 U.S. 377, 120 S.Ct. 897, 145 L.Ed.2d 886 (2000), have indicated that those rights can be restricted, it can only be done after careful scrutiny of the…