Despite Predictions, BCRA Has Not Been a Democratic ‘Suicide Bill’
- By Anthony Corrado and Thomas Mann
- Special to Roll Call
- July 26, 2004, Midnight
During debates in Congress and in the legal battles testing its constitutionality, critics of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 imagined a host of unanticipated and debilitating consequences. The law’s ban on party soft money and the regulation of electioneering advertising would, they warned, produce a parade of horribles: A decline in political speech protected by the First Amendment, the demise of political parties, and the dominance of interest groups in federal election campaigns.
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