Supreme Court of the United States
Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club Pac v. Ken Bennett
June 27, 2011180 L. Ed. 2d 664
Summary
Justice Kagan dissents from the majority's holding that Arizona's public financing system violates the First Amendment. She argues that the matching funds provision subsidizes rather than restricts speech, promoting robust political debate and serving the compelling interest of preventing corruption. Kagan emphasizes that precedents like Buckley v. Valeo support public financing and that the law does not burden speech sufficiently to warrant strict scrutiny.