Legal question about Citizens United, money and speech. [View all]

[DetlefK]

Correct me, if I'm wrong. Campaign-donations are an expression of political will. Therefore they are speech. According to the 1st amendment there shouldn't be limits on speech. So there shouldn't be a limit on campaign-donations.


Now, my made-up scenario:
You are running in an election. Your opponent is running ads that are factually incorrect. Those ads are paid for with the donations he received. That means, the speech of the donors is part of the factually incorrect ads, because those ads wouldn't exist without the speech/money of the donors.

Does that mean, you can sue your opponent's donors for libel?