Today's opinion is a major victory for those who oppose campaign finance regulation, and will likely lead to a new proliferation of corporate and union funded campaign ads in the 2008 election season.It has revealed the Roberts Court as moving firmly into the deregulationist camp,with the Chief Justice and Justice Alito dressing up the opinion as a minimalist,incremental decision.My hope that Justice Kennedy...was dashed. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)