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Joining the Republican bloc were Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both of Wisconsin, as well as Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the committee’s ranking member...
...Congress passed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act by wide margins: 60-40 in the Senate, and 240-189 in the House. President Bush signed the act into law that same year. In other words, McCain was not alone in steamrollering the First Amendment. But the fact that the Arizona senator is a charismatic figure who convinced others to join him in his attack on free speech is, if anything, even more unnerving...
...mention the name of a candidate for office within the area where the candidate is running. For instance, if McCain seeks the White House in 2008, then the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes the ad restriction, would not be able to run a radio spot criticizing the McCain-Feingold law by name in the month before each state’s presidential primary...
That’s not the worst of it. Under McCain-Feingold, the publisher Penguin was barred from promoting Senator John Kerry’s book, “A Call to Service,” during the run-up to last year’s election. And as a result of the law, Lions Gate, distributor of Michael Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” pulled some of its ads for the film before the Republican National Convention. Why? The ads had featured President Bush hitting a golf ball. The mere image...
...judicial low points, like May 18, 1896, when, in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court ruled that states could maintain “separate but equal” facilities for whites and blacks. As one of the more moderate justices, Anthony Kennedy, wrote with regard to McCain-Feingold: “Never before in our history has the Court upheld a law that suppresses speech to this extent...