Friday, September 4, 2009

More on the Hillary movie

This article in Reason excellently pits Freedom of Speech against McCain-Feingold.

So what should the Supreme Court do here? In a 1789 speech advocating the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, James Madison famously described the judiciary as "the guardians of those rights...an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the legislative or executive." By defending the First Amendment against the creeping depredations of so-called campaign finance reform, the Supreme Court will be doing its constitutional duty. More.

There's also an interesting follow-up article here.

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