The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that campaign contributions and political spending constitute protected speech under the First Amendment

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The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States addressed whether a president could face criminal charges for official presidential conduct

In McDonnell v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled an official act requires a pending matter and a formal decision or action

Under McDonnell v. United States, an official act does not require a final decision and can include preliminary administrative actions

Footnote three in Trump v. United States addressed the admissibility of public record evidence in a bribery prosecution of a former president

Public Citizen reported that companies benefiting from canceled federal enforcement actions contributed $210.5 million to MAGA Inc. and other Donald Trump-aligned political action committees

The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais made proving intentional racial discrimination under the Voting Rights Act more difficult

The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais weakened legal protections that insulated majority-Black, Democratic-held congressional districts from being redrawn

The United States Supreme Court ruled on congressional redistricting in the case Louisiana v. Callais

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the Tennessee General Assembly convened a special session to redraw Tennessee's single majority-Black district

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Louisiana redrew its congressional maps to reduce its majority-Black districts from two to one

Mississippi state lawmakers considered redrawing Mississippi's congressional map, state House map, and state Senate map following the Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Alabama implemented a new congressional map placing one of its two Black representatives at higher risk of losing his seat

The United States Supreme Court blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting healthcare for transgender inmates

Vivek Ramaswamy's attack advertisement featuring Donna Arthur originally circulated on X without federally required campaign funding disclosures

United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis helped create the Federal Trade Commission during the progressive anti-monopoly era of the 1910s

A donor contributed $500,000 to Amy Acton's campaign following the release of an attack ad featuring Donna Arthur

Private equity and investment firms donated approximately $900 million to United States federal political candidates between 1990 and 2023

Six co-signatories of a 2012 open letter to Mohamed Morsi contributed campaign donations to Abdul El Sayed's political campaigns

In Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in 2002, the United States Supreme Court held that non-obscene, sexually explicit imagery depicting an imaginary minor is protected by the First Amendment

Producing, receiving, and distributing artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material are not activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution