News & Opinions

 

•  What McCain-Feingold Really Means: The Campaign Finance Reform Bill is in Effect — At Least Until the Supreme Court Renders its Judgment.
  Business Week (June 4, 2003)
• A Candidate Turns New Money Rules to His Advantage
  By Richard A. Oppel, Jr., New York Times (June 3, 2003)
• Campaign-Finance Reform, Ad Nauseum
  By Rob Witwer, Denver Post (May 28, 2003)
• Attack-ad ban makes strange bedfellows
  By Lyle Denniston, Boston Globe (May 13, 2003)
• NRA Asks Rehnquist to Allow Ads
  By Charles Lane, Washington Post (May 13, 2003)
• Three Judges, Four Opinions, 1,638 Pages, And One Good Idea
  By Stuart Taylor Jr., National Journal (May 12, 2003)
• Election Law’s Sponsors Seek Stay on All of Ruling
  By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., New York Times (May 9, 2003)
• The D.C. District Court’s Recent Campaign Finance Opinions: The Fourteen-Pound Tome Underscores the Policy, As Well as Legal, Problems with the Act
  By Marci Hamilton, Findlaw (May 8, 2003)
• 1,600 Pages of Confusion
  By George F. Will, Washington Post (May 8, 2003)
• Soft money ban survives, barely
  San Francisco Chronicle (May 7, 2003)
• An Absence of Judicial Restraint? Unusually Angry Bickering Marks Decision on Campaign Finance Law
  By Neely Tucker, Washington Post (May 7, 2003)
• Judges Struggle on Campaign Finance: Lower Court Delays Imperil Plan for Supreme Court Ruling by 2004 Elections
  By Neely Tucker, Washington Post (April 4, 2003)
• Free Speech and Campaign Reform Don’t Conflict
  By Seth P. Waxman, New York Times (July 10, 2002)
• Election Panel Rebuffs an Effort to Weaken Curb on ‘Issue Ads’
  By Richard J. Oppel, Jr., New York Times (June 20, 2002)
• Newly Compiled List of Plaintiffs from Consolidated Lawsuits
  From the Campaign and Media Legal Center (May 15, 2002)
• ‘Reform’ Derailed
  By David S. Broder, Washington Post, p.A29 (April 24, 2002)
• Fatal Flaws in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
  By James Bopp Jr. and Richard E. Coleson, BNA’s Daily Report for Executives (April 22, 2002)
• New Law Follows Supreme Court Rulings
  By Trevor Potter, BNA’s Daily Report Report for Executives (April 22, 2002)
• Labor Federation Files Lawsuit
  By Leigh Strope, Associated Press (April 22, 2002)
• Arguments before the court: Why the Legal Challenge to Overturn Campaign-Finance Reform Law Will Not Succeed
  By Tom Campbell, San Francisco Chronicle (April 10, 2002)
• Plaintiffs Join Campaign Finance Suit
  By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (April 10, 2002)
• Breaking Constitutional Faith: President Bush And Campaign Finance Reform
  By Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar, Findlaw (April 5, 2002)
• Christians, Teens Join Finance Fight
  By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (April 5, 2002)
• Lawmakers File Finance Reform Papers
  By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (April 2, 2002)
• Let the Next Fight Begin: Campaign Finance Reform Goes To Court
  By John W. Dean, Findlaw (March 29, 2002)
• President Signs Campaign Bill, and Opponents Challenge It
  By David Stout, New York Times (March 27, 2002)
• Bush Signs Reform Law; Multiple Lawsuits Filed
  By Mike Allen, Washington Post (March 27, 2002)
• Coming Next, Landmark Ruling in Campaign Money Fight
  By Neil A. Lewis, New York Times (March 23, 2002)
• Campaign Finance Battle Heading to Court
  By Alison Mitchell, New York Times (March 22, 2002)
• Starr Will Help Fight Finance Reform
  By Nick Anderson, L.A. Times (March 22, 2002)
• Starr Gets in Campaign Finance Fold
  By Jim Abrams, Associated Press (March 21, 2002)
• Campaign Finance Bill Wins Final Approval in Congress
  By Alison Mitchell, New York Times (March 21, 2002)
• Senate Passes Historic Overhaul of Campaign Finance Rules
  By Helen Dewar, Washington Post (March 20, 2002)
• Dollars and Sense of Reform
  By Tom Campbell, San Francisco Chronicle (February 25, 2002)
• Sleazy Ads? Or Flawed Rules?
  By Kathleen M. Sullivan, New York Times (March 8, 2000).
• Paying Up Is Speaking Up
  By Kathleen M. Sullivan, New York Times (October 24, 1999).