Political speech is among our most treasured freedoms. As Benjamin Franklin noted, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Indeed, in 281 Care Comm. v. Arneson, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit noted the well-settled principle that political speech is “at the core of the protection afforded by the First Amendment.” In recent years, political organizations and others have mounted challenges to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and to various state statutes governing so-called robocalls to cellphones, on the basis that certain prohibitions restrict political speech.
