Campaign Finance Reform
Fiss is an advocate of strong regulation of political campaigns:
We may sometimes find it necessary to "restrict the speech of some elements of our society in order to enhance the relative voice of others," and that unless the Court allows, and sometimes even requires the state to do so, we as a people will never truly be free.
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