ABA Journal:  The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Arizona’s system of public financing for political campaigns on First Amendment grounds.

The law gave publicly financed candidates more public dollars when their privately funded opponents spent more. The court struck down the law in a 5-4 decision holding that the matching funds provision imposes a substantial burden on protected political speech of privately funded candidates and the organizations that finance their campaigns.

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