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"McCain-Feingold is an Orwellian law "
Published on May 8, 2007 10:05 AM
by Michael Schrimpf
File Under: Expenditure, Jurisprudence & Litigation, Political Committees & 527s
So says the Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama.
In fact, they say it "should be buried under the First Amendment."
We couldn't agree more.
The “money quote”:
Nothing could be plainer than the words of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law" abridging freedom of speech. Yet Congress passed McCain-Feingold, which suppresses speech in an obviously futile effort to diminish the role of money in political campaigns.
Unprecedented sums of money have poured into presidential and congressional campaigns since McCain-Feingold was enacted. The only thing that has changed is that advocacy groups can now have their First Amendment rights taken away by government bureaucrats.
Click HERE to read the editorial.
