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FREE SPEECH ON TRIAL
New York Post ^ | 12/05/02

Posted on 12/05/2002 12:21:13 AM PST by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Whether free speech will be the law of the land everywhere - except in political campaigns - is the question at the heart of a lawsuit that opened in Washington, D.C., yesterday. Arguments continue today.

A three-judge panel of a federal district court will hear McConnell v. FEC, the first challenge to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), popularly called McCain-Feingold, the so-called campaign-finance-reform law signed by President Bush earlier this year.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cfrlist

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