Peters: Citizens Can't Retreat from Campaign Finance Reform, Despite Court Setbacks
July 6, 2011
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Christopher J. Peters, professor in the University of Baltimore School of Law and an expert on Constitutional law and legal and political theory, contributed a Baltimore Sun op-ed on the state of campaign finance reform in light of two recent Supreme Court cases that promote a legal framework of "separation of campaign and state."
"Retreating from campaign reform would only entrench the court majority's view that managing our democracy is its job, not ours," Peters wrote in the July 6 piece. "Instead, concerned citizens should make their voices heard—by supporting advocacy groups and candidates that back meaningful campaign reform, and by demanding that Congress and the states enact reform legislation within the space left open by the court's recent decisions."
Read the op-ed here.