Fundraising Ruling Prompts a Scramble
6th July 2008
In summer 2003, an Illinois state senator used a new law to collect campaign contributions six times the normal limit for his insurgent U.S. Senate race against a multimillionaire securities trader.
But last week the Supreme Court struck down that law, the “Millionaire’s Amendment,” which helped launch the national political career of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) by leveling the financial playing field a bit. Writing for a 5 to 4 majority, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said the law amounted to an “unprecedented penalty” on candidates such as Obama’s opponent who want to exercise the First Amendment right to spend their own money in a run for office.
And once again a “minority” benefits from a discriminatory law. Rich leftoids will just have to go back to spending their own money to buy their legislative seats again. What a drag.