On April 6, the Institute for Free Speech filed this 20-page amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in French v Jones, 17-1255. The issue is a Montana law that makes it illegal for a candidate for judicial office to reveal that a political party has endorsed him or her. The plaintiff had been a candidate for Justice of the Peace, and he was not permitted to say that the local Republican Party had endorsed him.

The amicus is by well-known law professor Eugene Volokh, an expert on the First Amendment. The Supreme Court will consider whether to hear this case at its April 20 conference.