Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett
2011 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, 564 U.S. 721 (2011), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett | |
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Argued March 28, 2011 Decided June 27, 2011 | |
Full case name | Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Ken Bennett, in his official capacity as Arizona Secretary of State, et al. |
Citations | 564 U.S. 721 (more) 131 S. Ct. 2806; 180 L. Ed. 2d 664 |
Case history | |
Prior | McComish v. Bennett, 611 F.3d 510 (9th Cir. 2010); cert. granted, 562 U.S. 1060 (2010). |
Subsequent | McComish v. Bennett, 653 F.3d 1106 (9th Cir. 2011) |
Holding | |
Arizona's matching funds scheme substantially burdens political speech and is not sufficiently justified by a compelling interest to survive First Amendment scrutiny. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Roberts, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Alito |
Dissent | Kagan, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. amend. I |
In 1998, Arizona voters approved the ballot measure known as the Clean Elections Act. When it was passed, the Clean Elections law established public financing for elections of statewide office campaigns. Candidates who choose to participate in the system must collect a specific number of $5 donations. This makes them eligible to receive government funds to run their campaigns. Under the law as passed, if a participating candidate is outspent by a non-participating opponent, the participating candidate receives added government funds matching the money raised privately by the non-participating candidate, up to three times the original government subsidy.[1] The most prominent candidates filing under the Clean Elections system were Janet Napolitano, who was elected Governor in 2002, and Jan Brewer, who was elected Governor in 2010.