The Holder decision, he said on Wednesday, "surely demonstrates that the court will not treat campaign speech by terrorist organizations like speech by ordinary voters".
Others, meanwhile, are looking for alternatives to Buckley v. Valeo the landmark 1976 decision that equated spending with speech and established the basis for the current system, which treats campaign expenditures and contributions differently.
Others, meanwhile, are looking for alternatives to Buckley v. Valeo — the landmark 1976 decision that equated spending with speech and established the basis for the current system, which treats campaign expenditures and contributions differently.
She said it always appeared to treat campaign groups - such as those opposed to genetically modified (GM) foods - as a "lunatic fringe".
McConnell wants to go much further by forcing courts to treat all campaign contribution limits as they treat campaign expenditure limits, which were found to be an unconstitutional burden on First Amendment rights in the 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision.
He called for the Federal Elections Commission to treat campaign and candidate-specific super PACs as "in reality, one entity to which the contribution limits applicable to a single federal candidate should apply".
Mr. Bent treats campaigning like an unpleasant necessity.
An increasingly influential cadre of Democratic strategists is finding new ideas in the same place Malchow did: behavioral-science experiments that treat campaigns as their laboratories and voters as unwitting guinea pigs.
As James Poniewozik, the television critic for the Times, wrote, "How do you spoof a candidate who treats campaigning like a roast?" In addition, the increasing deluge of topical quips and one-liners that fill social media can make satire seem less like an island of sanity in the sewer system of American political discourse and more like just another crap-filled pipeline.
And so he trudges stiltedly along, treating the campaign as a grubby series of chores he must endure so as to assume his rightful place in the Oval Office.
