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Tags: PAC, libertarianism, campaign finance, Amendment Four, Institute for Justice

Yesterday the DC-area-based Institute for Justice, a nonprofit that calls itself the nation’s only libertarian public interest law firm, filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s campaign finance laws. When four Sarasota-county residents wanted to pool together $150 apiece to fund a series of radio ads attacking a proposed state constitutional amendment on November’s ballot, the law required that they register as a political action committee or PAC.

Now, on behalf of those four residents, the...