Campaign Finance Issues

Campaign Finance Issues

This is so deeply disappointing. I would expect the President and his administration to defend the free speech rights of all Americans and to avoid supporting laws like this.

FOXNews.com - Politics - Supreme Court Weighs Campaign Finance Reform

The Bush administration is siding with defenders of the law, putting it at odds with many conservative politicians and interest groups. President Bush signed the legislation last year with reservations, calling it flawed but still an improvement over the old system. . . .

For now, Republicans have fared better than Democrats. The Republicans have a traditional advantage among smaller individual donors, who can now give $2,000 apiece instead of $1,000, while Democrats had built a powerful system to raise and spend the large soft-money contributions.

In the first half of this year, allowed to raise only limited donations from individuals and political action committees, the Republican Party's three national committees raised $115.7 million, compared with $44.2 million for the Democrats.

The case is McConnell v. FEC, 02-1674.