[EL] Real Truth About Obama & Jim Bopp

[Joe La Rue]

Rick,

You wrote, "The courts, especially since *Citizens United* blew away
campaign finance limits, seem much more apt to uphold broad disclosure
rules." You're right that courts are upholding "broad disclosure rules,"
including some instances where unconstitutional PAC-style registration and
reporting burdens have simply been re-branded "disclosure" by Government
and then upheld by the courts. But *Citizens *did not "blow away campaign
finance limits." Individuals were always free to spend as much as they
wanted independently of candidates. All *Citizens *did was recognize that
prior precedent required that right be extended to *all *who want to speak
independently of candidates, including labor unions (and you thought I was
going to say "corporations").

As for Jim Bopp, I've worked with him and know him as an attorney pretty
well. He's got the tenacity of a bulldog and the patience of Job. Remember,
as various progressives warned us, he's got a TEN!!! YEAR!!! PLAN!!!
(Horror of Horrors!), and we're barely two years into it.
http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/Boppreport.pdf
;
http://www.brennancenter.org/blog/archives/doe_v._reed_bopp_v._scalia .
Once upon a time, everyone thought no contribution limit could be too low,
and then came *Randall v. Sorrell*. And of course, once upon a time
everyone thought Government could ban every communication that mentioned a
candidate during the electioneering communication blackout period, and then
came *Wisconsin Right to Life*. I won't be at all surprised when the Court
grants cert to one of Jim's cases and clarifies it meant what it said about
the Major Purpose Test.

Joe
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