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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Court Rules Non-Profits Can Spend Whatever They Want on Campaign

This is a good step in the right direction of dumping McCain-Feingold. This is what the court had to say:
"The First Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, protects the right of individual citizens to spend unlimited amounts to express their views about policy issues and candidates for public office," the court ruling said. The First Amendment also "safeguards the right of citizens to band together and pool their resources as an unincorporated group or nonprofit organization in order to express their views about policy issues and candidates for public office."
This may be the beginning of the end for many of the unconstitutional provisions of McCain-Feingold.

1 comment:

Robert Fanning said...

Would a non-profit organization receiving government funds be also free to spend as they please on political campaigning? Perhaps the court did not think far enough afield to anticipate this, as in ACORN?