By John Gizzi
Bradley A. Smith, past FEC chairman and head of the Center for Competitive Politics, which promotes campaign finance deregulation, agreed.“The court’s conclusion was common sense,” Smith told Newsmax. “The law limited an individual to contributing the legal maximum to just 18 candidates. If the first 18 aren’t ‘corrupted’ by the contribution, why is candidate 19?“What’s remarkable is that four justices of the Supreme Court continue to believe that such overt limitations on political speech are constitutional. Moreover, to reach that conclusion the dissenters relied on a series of preposterous hypotheticals bearing no resemblance to reality. Fortunately, five justices aren’t swayed by such nonsense. A good day for freedom — and for competitive campaigns,” Smith said.
