This morning's BCRA news
and commentary The HIll offers this report on
fundraising under BCRA. The Charlotte Observer reports here
on a group running anti-John Edwards advertisements. Part of the article reads:
"As part of their Tuesday news conference, Americans for Job Security complained
that a recent federal court ruling on the so-called McCain-Feingold campaign
finance law appears to make the airing of their TV ad a felony -- for now.
The judges upheld the law's ban on any late-in-the-campaign broadcast of
attack ads from groups bankrolled by corporate or union money. But the judges
took out the time element and said the airing of such ads was illegal at
all times.The ruling, though, is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court,
which will consider the constitutionality of the ban." Pete Camp submits this
story in Up and Coming magazine on BCRA and third parties.
FEC commissioner and election law professor Brad Smith offers this oped, which originally appeared
in the Wall Street Journal. Bryan York offers this oped at The Hill,
regarding the BCRA-mandated study of public financing in Maine and Arizona.
Joseph Perkins offers this
commentary.
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Rick Hasen
Professor of Law and William M. Rains Fellow
Loyola Law School
919 South Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
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