| Subject: news of the day 12/12/03 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 12/12/2003, 6:21 AM |
| To: election-law |
As I flagged here, the
big money action in campaign finance is going to shift to 527
organizations. Today's New York Times picks up that theme with A
New Battleground in Political Fund-Raising.
The Washington Post offers this
report. See also this
Houston Chronicle report.
Spencer Overton writes Campaign Reform's Next Step in the Boston Globe. E.J. Dionne writes Money Talks, and the Court Listens in the Washington Post. You can find Google news links to many newspaper editorials on the case by clicking here.
Howard Bashman also links to this
NPR BCRA coverage and commentary.
Linda Greenhouse offers this analysis in the New York Times, which begins: "The Supreme Court that upheld the new campaign finance law on Wednesday was a pragmatic court, concerned less with the fine points of constitutional doctrine than with the real-world context and consequences of the intensely awaited decision."
Tony Mauro also writes First
Amendment Gets Short Shrift at High Court.
See The Color of Money.
See also this
oped.
>From the oped: "Despite Wednesday's high-court ruling, Americans still
should be decrying what amounts to a new poll tax: the current system
of privately financed election campaigns. Because the system implicitly
relies on an elite group of wealthy, white donors to fund most
campaigns, it discriminates against people of color and other
underserved communities that don't cough up as much money."
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