The millionaires amendment pressures candidates to make an unconstitutional choice

Posted by Staff on April 21, 2008 |

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)

 
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April 21, 2008

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