Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been crucial to challenging restrictive laws and protecting minority voting rights. This report analyzes new implications — that have so far gone largely unnoted — if the Court takes the extraordinary step of striking down this key provision.
The conventional wisdom is that genuine campaign finance reform is again doomed to defeat in the upcoming weeks, a victim of incumbents' sense that the current rules serve their needs well.
Like the cock of the walk, Senator Mitch McConnell strutted across the Senate floor, preening his new First Amendment feathers and pecking to death the latest (and most modest) of campaign finance reforms set before that body.
Letter written by Brennan Center leadership to Senators to rebut letters from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), dated February 17
and February 20, 1998, in opposition to the Snowe-Jeffords Amendment to the McCain-Feingold Bill.
