McCain-Feingold Act

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McCain-Feingold Act

Legislation in the United States, passed in 2002, that changed the way that campaigns for federal political offices are financed. It banned soft money contributions, which were unregulated, usually large, contributions to the national party committees, instead of individual candidates. It also required political advertisements to state what person or group paid for them.
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If McCain-Feingold was the campaign finance gold standard of its time, the Democracy Dollars Act is the boldest campaign finance proposal today.
DOLLARS FOR DEMOCRACY
So McCain-Feingold prevented the ads from airing during the two-month period preceding the election.
On money and the freedom of speech
Similarly, the Citizens United case invalidated the odious provision of McCain-Feingold that banned any organization from publishing an ad discussing a candidate within 30 days of an election.
Speech = Money
FEC, which struck down portions of the 2001 McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law.
Free speech blues
And the 1996 Democratic fundraising abuses paved the way for the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, better known as McCain-Feingold. "Congress," says Democratic election lawyer Joseph Sandler, "is always fighting the last war." And whenever new reforms take effect, Washington's brightest minds turn to finding clever new ways to circumvent them.
Follow the dark money: the down and dirty history of secret spending, PACS gone wild, and the epic four-decade fight over the only kind of political capital that matters
"This is the best shot in the arm on the issue that we have had in a long time," says former Senator Russ Feingold, coauthor of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation.
Playing political PACman
Thus was born McCain-Feingold, a.k.a, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, a law that took Roosevelt's self-serving crusade a few steps further than the Supreme Court was willing to tolerate.
The appearance of corruption: both Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain tried to save their reputations by pushing campaign finance regulations
The Supreme Court had knocked back a provision of the McCain-Feingold Act that prohibited all corporations and unions from broadcasting electioneering communications.
Goldman to restrict spending on electioneering
The Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 (also known as McCain-Feingold) banned corporations from paying for "electioneering communications" that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a candidate for federal office within 30 days of primary elections and 60 days of general elections.
Spending spree: Citizens United opens the door to increased corporate campaign contributions
After the 2002 McCain-Feingold (M-F) Act [5] went into effect, the public no longer had reason to suspect that corporate lobbying, campaign contributions or corporate cash affected elected officials' votes on legislation or positions on issues.
Court's campaign money ruling is a red herring
The McCain-Feingold Act of 2002 was an attempt to seal the cracks.
Floodgates already open
With Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the majority, the court upheld the McCain-Feingold Act against a free-speech challenge by a 5-4 vote in 2003.
Campaigns, guns and jails: states have a lot at stake in the Supreme Court's new session, including a pivotal case on election spending

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