Steve Chapman: Campaign Finance Curbs and Bipartisan Censorship

Congressional Democrats are lining up behind a
constitutional amendment to allow restrictions on campaign
contributions and spending, and Republicans, to their everlasting
credit, are opposed. They agree with the Supreme Court that limits
like these are limits on speech, and they think it would be a
mistake to amend the Constitution to abridge freedom of speech,
writes Steve Chapman.

This position is particularly welcome because it represents
something of a reversal by the GOP—not on regulating campaign
finance, but on censoring speech. Republicans, oddly, have made the
reversal without acknowledging—or perhaps even realizing—what
they’ve done, according to Chapman.

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