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Abstract

On June 30, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Randall v. Scott held that the First Amendment affords protection to an individual based on the mere basis of that individual’s political candidacy. In so doing, the Randall court departed from other circuit courts, which had approached the issue by way of analogy to the First Amendment freedoms of speech and association. This Comment concludes that the Eleventh Circuit’s novel approach, although well intentioned, is only tenuously grounded in Supreme Court precedent.

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  • Subject
    • Election Law

  • Journal title
    • Boston College Law Review

  • Volume
    • 52

  • Issue
    • 6

  • Pagination
    • E. Supp. 185

  • Date submitted

    7 September 2022