Supreme Court grants cert to AZ Free Enterprise Club

The Institute for Justice will be back in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, this time in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett.   The lawsuit, according to the IJ press release, challenges Arizona’s system of government-funded political campaigns—one of the broadest campaign finance regimes in the nation.  This program forces taxpayers to fund politicians’ campaigns and punishes not only candidates who refuse government subsidies but independent groups that support them as well.  Arizona’s program has been held out as a model by those calling for greater government restrictions on free speech in the guise of campaign finance “reforms” in local, state and federal elections.  A rather funny video describing the challenged law is here.