The League of Women Voters of the United States, Common Cause, Inc., The Greenlining Institute, and United States Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)
Amici Curiae
Daniel R. Ortiz, Counsel of Record The parties to this brief are all publicinterest groups that support campaign finance reform. Daniel R. Ortiz is aprofessor of law at the University of Virginia. He receivedhis law degree from Yale in 1983. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Appellants as submitted to the U.S. SupremeCourt on February 23, 2007. Largely inresponse to mounting sham issue-advocacy in Federal elections, which evadedreasonable restrictions on corporate and labor spending as well as longstandingdisclosure requirements, Congress passed and the president signed theBipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). One of its central…
