Congressional opponents may try to repeal the presidential public financing system. The Brennan Center for Justice, along with numerous other groups, wrote a letter to Senator Dick Durbin urging him to block any repeal effort.
The high court's ruling in the Arizona public financing case is no win for free speech. It actually stifles speech by creating a new right to speak without response.
Last month, a bitterly divided Supreme Court issued the latest in a string of ideologically-driven decisions that have struck down a series of legislative attempts to reduce the influence of money and special interests in our elections.
Government corruption keeps making headlines. Such news makes the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision striking down part of Arizona's public financing law particularly troubling. Fortunately for New Yorkers, the Empire State still has plenty of weapons to fight corruption in government.
The Brennan Center's Executive Director Michael Waldman appeared on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown to discuss McComish v. Bennett and the future of campaign finance law.
