Amicus Curiae join the fight for the First Amendment

The nearly four years' long battle against Ohio's political speech police was recently joined by forty-six friends of the court who filed nineteen separate amicus curiae briefs in our Supreme Court case, SBA List & COAST v. Driehaus, et al. - every one of them in support of the SBA List and COAST.

The amici are a veritable who's who of free speech, limited government and civil liberties organizations (and one of America's pre-eminent humorists) including the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association. It is comforting to know that no matter these groups' divergent political views, they all hold the Constitution dear.

The complete list of amici filings we have received thus far:

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

American Civil Liberties Union

1851 Center for Constitutional Law

Government Integrity Fund

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Booksellers Association

American Booksellers Foundation For Free Expression,

American Library Association, Association Of American Publishers, Inc.

Comic book Legal Defense Fund

Freedom to Read Foundation

Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association

Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association

Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance

Annie Bloom's Books, Changing Hands Bookstore, Inc.

Harvard Bookstore, Inc.

Paulina Springs Books

Powell's Bookstore, Inc.

Schuler Books & Music

Tattered Cover, Inc.

The King's English, Inc.

Weller Book Works

Village Books

Dark Horse Comics, Inc.

Student Press Law Center

United States of America

Southeastern Legal Foundation

Institute for Justice

Reason Foundation

Individual Rights Foundation

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists

Review and Herald Publishing Association

Pacific Press Publishing Association

Christian Legal Society

National Association of Evangelicals

National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference

Queens Federation of Churches and Institutional Religious Freedom Citizens United Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence

Center for Competitive Politics

Bioethics Defense Fund

Justice and Freedom Fund

First Amendment Lawyers Association

Cato Institute

P.J. O'Rourke COAST will be posting an "Amicus of the Day" over the next few weeks to highlight each of the arguments made in the briefs. Check out today's brief here