On HuffPost Live, First Amendment, Inc., a debate by Eugene Volokh, Alan Morrison, and Elizabeth Wydra on the First Amendment and commerical speech. The introductory caption says:
It's been nearly 40 years since Ralph Nader convinced the Supreme Court to protect commercial speech, but from campaign finance restrictions to smoking labels, corporations are now using First Amendment to take down regulations they don't like.
Protection of commercial speech is often flagged as a non-originalist doctrine that political conservatives hypocritically favor. But I think the originalist basis for it (or at least for some version of protection) is stronger than commonly assumed — as Professor Volokh, among others, has pointed out. (Mike Rappaport has more on the issue here and here).
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