Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act / Act's "Wellstone amendment" should be repealed

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"Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who has celebrated the virtues of precedent and consensus, needs to make sure that the court protects reasonable provisions of McCain-Feingold even as it strikes those that compromise free speech. In particular, it's important that the court preserve reasonable limits on the size of contributions to candidates and parties."

From Improve McCain-Feingold, by Los Angeles Times editorial board (Los Angeles Times, 27 April 2007) (view)

"Astonishingly, the Supreme Court, which many in Congress had counted on to overturn the Wellstone amendment, instead ringingly ratified it. And so the law of the land now sharply circumscribes what is arguably the most important of all civil rights in a democracy: citizens groups' right to criticize politicians."

From Fix the McCain-Feingold Law, by Jonathan Rauch (Reason, 7 October 2004) (view)

"It turns out the new law's ban on last-minute ads only applies to corporations. True, most nonprofit "advocacy" groups—such as the Sierra Club and the ACLU—are corporations. But (and this is the point I didn't understand) they don't have to be."

From Everyone Was Wrong About McCain-Feingold!, by Mickey Kaus (Slate, 25 April 2002) (view)

"Which America do you want to live in—one where citizens are free to join together to proselytize for causes they believe in, or one where they are free up to $5,000 and go to jail if they spend $5,001?"

From Wellstone's Folly, by Mickey Kaus (Slate, 4 April 2002) (view)