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Election Matters 2025: Money, Politics, and the First Amendment
10.03.25
3:00-4:15 PM CDT
On October 3, the State Democracy Research Initiative and the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison hosted the third event in our Election Matters 2025 series: “Money, Politics, and the First Amendment,” sponsored by Stafford Rosenbaum LLP. The panel discussed the impacts of increasingly expensive elections and the tension between campaign finance regulation and free speech. Panelists included Attorney Benjamin Ginsberg (Hoover Institution), Attorney Saurav Ghosh (Campaign Legal Center), Professor Raymond La Raja (UMass Amherst, Political Science), and Professor Abby Wood (USC Gould School of Law), with Professor Barry Burden (UW-Madison, Political Science) moderating.
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