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Mitch McConnell’s Myths About the Constitutional Limitations on Campaign Finance Reform

  • E. Joshua Rosenkranz
  • Deborah Goldberg
February 11, 2003
February 11, 2003

During the last round of debate on campaign finance reform, Senator Mitch McConnell repeatedly claimed that the First Amendment could not be squared with the McCain-Feingold bill or the Snowe-Jeffords amendment. On all of the following issues, McConnell s myths stand in stark contrast with constitutional reality-