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The Lawyer Who Argued Money is Speech

Submitted by Monica Rober on Mon, 10/25/2010 - 14:04

A new study by Public Campaign and Common Cause examines the efforts of conservative lawyer James Bopp Jr. to dismantle our country's campaign finance system."James Bopp is the point man for conservative wealthy interests whose goal is to dismantle the laws and regulations we have in place to stop the buying of Congress and other elected officials," said former Rep. Bob Edgar (D-Penn.), the president of the liberal-leaning lobby Common Cause. "...Bopp said that he has crusaded against both federal campaign donation limits and disclosure requirements because he thinks corporations have First Amendment rights in election campaigns and shouldn't be "punished" with negative publicity for exercising them."Click here to read the full article about the new study in The Kansas City Star.

  • disclosure
  • free speech
  • James Bopp
  • money in politics

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