In 2011,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that part of the public campaign finance law of was unconstitutional because it forced privately funded candidates to restrain their spending or risk triggering additional public funds for their opponent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's 2011 ruling was against Arizona's public campaign finance law, finding that the provision giving additional public funds to publicly funded candidates when their privately funded opponents outspent them was unconstitutional. This was seen as a violation of the First Amendment rights of the privately funded candidates.