Court Hears Case on Unsigned Leaflets
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the only sitting justice who has held elective office, brought into focus yesterday arguments over how the government may regulate campaign literature without infringing free speech rights.
The case concerned homemade, unsigned leaflets protesting a school tax levy, distributed in violation of an Ohio disclosure statute. A ruling could go beyond one state's ban on anonymous literature and affect numerous state and federal disclosure requirements intended to deter election fraud.
"I would have thought that if the First Amendment stood for anything at all," O'Connor said during oral arguments, a resident should be able to pass …
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