February 27, 2006

Supreme Court Set to Weigh Central Election-Law Issues - New York Times

Supreme Court Set to Weigh Central Election-Law Issues - New York Times:

I believe the Constitution's right to free speech, especially in political campaigns, trumps any artificial limits on campaign spending. Vermont's law should be overturned.
"The Vermont campaign finance case, Randall v. Sorrell, No. 04-1528, tests the court's current understanding of its watershed ruling 30 years ago in Buckley v. Valeo, which upheld limits on political contributions but determined that campaign spending was a form of political speech that the First Amendment did not permit the government to curtail."

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