Today’s Post has three letters to the editor on the DISCLOSE Act, one from Brad Smith and another from the NRA’s Chris Cox.
Category: Const Law Issues
DISCLOSE Act turmoil
(See below for updates for Friday, 6/18/10.) What a day for the DISCLOSE Act. We wake up to two major newspapers endorsing a version of the bill with a targeted amendment apparently written to remove the National Rifle Association’s opposition to the legislation. Next comes word that the bill has been tweaked again, this time […]
Campaign finance reform and the state of the union
David Broder discusses campaign finance reform and other proposals in Washington and California in his column this morning. In effect, what we are about to witness is a monumentally consequential new round in the old struggle to balance the cohesive and fractionating forces in this diverse, continental republic.