David Broder’s Broad Brush

April 24, 2002

In David Broder’s Washington Post column today (’Reform’ Derailed), Mr. Broder speculates whether the Supreme Court’s decision on CPPA implied how they will vote on the McCain-Feingold-Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill. Broder seems to think that the Supreme Court will strike the latter down simply because they struck down the former. As Mr. Broder frames the argument, the idea that the Supremes might see a legal distinction between the two forms of speech seems ludicrous. “You’ll let people make virtual pictures of kids having sex with adults, but you won’t let companies make commercials telling people how to vote?”

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