In an essay published online by the Stanford Law Review, former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) offers his critique of the post-Citizens United era of campaign financing.The former lawmaker and progressive icon points to the time between 2004 to 2008 — immediately after the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, a.k.a. the McCain-Feingold bill — as a time when “our system of campaign financing began to take shape in a way that channeled citizen participation and provided incentive for candidates to turn to the democratic support of online activists and small-dollar contributors.” The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, Feingold writes, “changed everything.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=97993