When the Supreme Court Stopped a Blueprint for Muzzling America - People United For Privacy

When the Supreme Court Stopped a Blueprint for Muzzling America - People United For Privacy

This Friday, January 30th, will ring in the 50th anniversary of American life under Buckley v. Valeo, the cornerstone campaign finance case – and an underappreciated donor privacy precedent. It’s easy, at a remove of half a century, to forget how apocalyptic the Watergate scandal landed in 1970s America. Today, most of us focus on the third-rate burglary and bugging of the Democratic National Committee headquarters, or the farcical cast of chara…