Campaign finance law goes too far, Starr says

[Nottingham]

Campaign finance law goes too far, Starr says
Associated Press




WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court was told today that Congress overstepped its bounds in passing legislation imposing complicated new rules intended to clean up election campaign finances.

The law "intrudes deeply into the political life of the nation" and "in a word, goes too far," said Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel who investigated President Clinton, who now is serving as an attorney for challengers to the law.

Justices returned early from their summer break for the first time in nearly three decades to hear arguments in the complex case, the results of which will guide next year's campaigns and those for years to come.

In the opening minutes of oral arguments today, justices queried attorneys who contend the law is an unconstitutional infringement on free speech rights. Many were technical questions.
Groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association are challenging the 2002 law, which bans huge, unlimited donations to political parties known as "soft money," and tightens controls on political advertising in the weeks before an election.

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2087151


Well the Congress can make em but the Supreme court can squash em!

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Since when did Ken Starr have any credibility

He's 100% discredited and not to be trusted ever since he nearly destroyed the last elected President of the US.

Hawkeye-X

[Skittles]

2. "GOES TOO FAR"

Mr. F***ing Starr certainly has experience with THAT.

[diplomats]

4. So a law that "intrudes" into the "political life" of the nation

is unconstitutional but an $80 partisan investigation into a legitimately elected president's personal life is OK. Right, Ken. Tell me another one.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Ken Starr is involved in the opposition!!!

Of course this swine would oppose honesty and integrity in public office. Just look in the mirror Ken!

[Nottingham]

5. When Ya want some Dirty Work Done Who do ya call STARR

I wish he would RETIRE! But the good news he sucks as a Lawyer so we might have a chance! :bounce:

[Hand]

7. Retire, hell...

Let the bastard die. Preferably slowly and painfully.
:mad:

[denverbill]

6. Ken Starr and the ACLU on the same side. How sad.

The ACLU is dead wrong on this issue.

MONEY IS NOT SPEECH. I can talk to my Congressman til my face turns blue, but I can't pay him for vote in my favor. That's illegal. It's bribery and corruption.

If money = speech, then bribery should be legal.

[w4rma]

8. Corporations have limits on their free speech. People do not.

Corporations can't lie about products. People can.
Corporations can't fund political campaigns. People can.

Corporations should be in the buisness of buisness. Not politics. People can do either.

Corporations are not people. Corporations are top-down constructs used to organize in a way that makes money. Corporations have no buisness being in politics. People do.

[bluestateguy]

9. I despise and hate Ken Starr, but

parts of the law are unconstitutional. No issue ads 60 days before an election! WTF? When else would you run an ad? How does that provision of the law square with the 1st Amendment?

[TheYellowDog]

10. It doesn't square with the 1st,

and that's why the ACLU opposed it. The law is blatantly unconstitutional.