Powerline Blog comments on today’s setback for the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law.
A three-judge federal court panel took another bite out of McCain-Feingold today, ruling unconstitutional, as applied to the case before it, that provision of the statute that prohibits corporations and others from engaging in “electioneering communications,”
This is another of my “Centrist is as Centrist does” exercises:
How do we reconcile freedom of speech with that which allows wealth to buy control of laws and justice?
Do we limit the power to influence voters?
Do we increase the resources of the underdog?
Should we create a way to ensure fair public debate?