Congress funds a variety of causes to the exclusion of others. That is permissible and necessary. Congress cannot, however, condition its spending on the abandonment of recipients' constitutional rights. Legislation that steps over this line implicates the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Re-examining Funding and the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine
The Legal Intelligencer
March 14, 2013
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