Senator Mitch McConnell (KY-R)
Amicus Curiae
Bobby R. Burchfield, Counsel of Record Mitch McConnell is the Senate minority leader and has been an active opponent of recent campaign finance reform attempts. He led the legal challenge to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that ended with the Supreme Court’s McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) decision. Bobby Burchfield is a partner with the law firm McDermott Will & Emery, where he works on complex corporate litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 20, 2011. Arizona’s Clean Elections Act imposes…
