Supreme Court of the United States - BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE’S CENTER FOR

7 1 INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE1 The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence is the public interest law arm of the Claremont Institute, whose stated mission is to restore the principles of the American founding to their rightful and preeminent authority in our national life, including the individual right of freedom from compelled speech. [...] The ordinance requires political campaigns to publish in both their written and broadcast advertisements the identity of the top donors to the campaign and the top donors to any committees or other organizations that are also top donors to the campaign. [...] Much of the decision below is devoted to the amount of space that required publication of infor- mation will occupy on the advertisement. [...] Even if there were a basis for a lower level of scrutiny for compelled disclosures, the compelled speech doc- trine of the Court requires analysis of the regulation under the strict scrutiny compelling state interest standard of review. [...] How is government to be responsive to public opinion if the government has the ability to burden and limit core political speech? Madison too noted the importance of public opin- ion for the liberty the Founders sought to enshrine in 7 the Constitution.