Scalia: ‘Who Is More Incorruptible Than the Millionaire?’

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4-23-2008 1:09 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c3fd51af-bc19-430c-9fc9-c6c5d0846d96/0FED5B49-4C8F-4217-ADD8-1E0A86502088/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog">The millionaire’s amendment works like this: in races with self-financing (read: wealthy) candidates, the amendment “levels the playing field” by requiring those candidates to disclose more information and permitting their opponents to raise more money. (<A target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202435.html">Here’s</A> a report from the WaPo, <A target="_blank" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120887107540434571.html?mod=WSJBlog">one from the</A> WSJ, and <A target="_blank" href="http://electionlawblog.org/archives/010673.html">a post</A> from the Election Law Blog’s Rick Hasen, who predicts that the Court could uphold the provision increasing contribution limits for candidates who face self-financed opponents.)</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/7A5AD85A-F131-4259-B755-B4EB69A02ED9" alt="scotus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog">But the Supremes seem to have a way of enlivening almost any topic, and they did so yesterday when they heard <A target="_blank" href="http://www.law.duke.edu/publiclaw/supremecourtonline/certgrants/2007/davvfed">Davis v. Federal Election Commission</A>, a battle over the constitutionality of the so-called “millionaire’s amendment,” part of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/04/23/scalia-who-is-more-incorruptible-than-the-millionaire/?mod=WSJBlog"><P>Justice Scalia disliked that rationale, on constitutional and practical grounds. “Who is more incorruptible than the millionaire, right?” he asked. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0FED5B49-4C8F-4217-ADD8-1E0A86502088/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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