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Rachel L. Fish, a student at the divinity school, organized a panel on anti-Semitism in December of 2002. One of the speakers mentioned that HDS had received funding from the Zayed Center...
...panel also rejected a provision of McCain-Feingold that would ban corporations and labor unions from running ads explicitly referring to political candidates immediately before an election. This clause is meant to ensure that non-voting entities like corporations are not able buy political influence by essentially paying for a candidate’s ads. The prohibition will also cut down on attack ads, which are often funded by independent groups like corporations or unions. At the same time, the provision leaves anybody free to run truly issue-based ads at any time. A return to truly issue-based...
...special three-judge panel struck down several key provisions of the landmark Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act. The act, popularly known as McCain-Feingold, closes loopholes in existing laws that allow wealthy special interest groups to spend unlimited sums of money on political candidates. McCain-Feingold is an important step towards a more democratic political process, where the overwhelming influence of special interest money is not allowed to drown out the voices of voters. The Supreme Court should overturn the panel’s wrongheaded ruling...
...three-judge panel struck down two crucial clauses. First, they ruled that the prohibition on unlimited donations to political parties, known as soft money, violated the First Amendment. The provision would have allowed for some “party building” activities while ensuring that soft money does not remain a back door method for the indirect funding of candidates. Soft money donations began in the 1970s as a way for parties to finance encouraging participation in the political process. But parties now spend the cash largely on attack ads that increase voter cynicism and provide little useful information...
...running joke of the panel was her daughter and husband’s criticisms of her cooking...