The millionaires amendment pressures candidates to make an unconstitutional choice
Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow of the Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review at the Cato Institute, says a brief by the Cato Institute argues that the millionaires amendment of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law forces an unconstitutional choice between self-funding and restricting speech, and that the disclosure provision will “chill” a person’s speech. (1:00)
April 21, 2008
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