What was at stake in the Supreme Court's controversial ruling this week that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections?
Mark Rush, the Robert G. Brown Professor of Law and Politics at Washington and Lee University, says the decision points to a tension between a desire to ensure that political liberty, especially political speech, is as free as possible and a desire to ensure that the political process is not corrupt.
Rush says there is a legitimate goal to striking a balance, because "a democracy is only as good as the information that the people can draw upon."
