Lower Court Holding
Decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), as the record amply indicates, was a considerable legislative achievement that many thought would never come to pass. Indeed, the law constitutes the most comprehensive reform of our national campaign finance system in the past 28 years. As such, it is the latest chapter in the history of a longstanding and recurring problem that our government has been wrestling with since the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. Titles I and II of BCRA focus principally on a major campaign finance development that has dramatically unfolded over the past decade: the…
