Campaign Finance: Philanthropy's Agenda

Late last year the Supreme Court, with vigorous rhetoric but by the thinnest of margins, upheld the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, the most sweeping campaign-finance reform legislation in a generation.

In McConnell v. FEC, the court said the campaign law, often called McCain-Feingold, after its Senate sponsors, was a constitutionally valid effort to prevent political corruption. Nonprofit groups that pushed for the campaign-financing changes -- and the foundations

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