Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Found

In Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Found., 525 U.S. 182, 197-99, 119 S. Ct. 636, 645-46, 142 L. Ed. 2d 599, 609-10 (1999), the Court addressed a Colorado statute that required distributors of political petitions campaign materials to wear identifying badges and file affidavits disclosing their identity. There, the Court found the requirement that petitioners wear identifying badges was prohibitively burdensome on a person's right to anonymously exercise First Amendment rights. Id., 525 U.S. at 200, 119 S. Ct. at 646, 142 L. Ed. 2d at 614-15. Specifically, the Court concluded that "the badge requirement discourages participation in the petition circulation process by forcing name identification without sufficient cause." Ibid.