BCRA Half-full

• Dec. 15, 2003, Midnight

We admit that as political activists figured out ways to circumvent the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act over the past several months, we’ve harbored doubts whether the exercise was worthwhile. But on reflection in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last week upholding the law, we reaffirm our support for the main purpose of the law — to sever federal officials from the raising of soft money and from the corruption that process has involved.