Supreme Court Affirms a Ban on Soft Money
By ADAM LIPTAK
NYT
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties.
Three justices — Anthony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — did vote to hear the case, suggesting the possibility that the court might take up a similar question down the road.
In March, a special three-judge panel of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the ban, in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, was constitutional.
But the panel expressed reservations about whether this aspect of that law, often called McCain-Feingold, could be reconciled with the Supreme Court’s January decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that case, the court ruled that the federal government may not ban political spending by corporations and other advocacy groups, like labor unions.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties.
Three justices — Anthony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — did vote to hear the case, suggesting the possibility that the court might take up a similar question down the road.
In March, a special three-judge panel of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the ban, in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, was constitutional.
But the panel expressed reservations about whether this aspect of that law, often called McCain-Feingold, could be reconciled with the Supreme Court’s January decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that case, the court ruled that the federal government may not ban political spending by corporations and other advocacy groups, like labor unions.
(More here.)
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