Senate Easily Kills Radical Change to 1st Amendment

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On March 28, by a vote of 67 to 33, the Senate voted to table (kill) a proposed a radical change to the 1st Amendment to the Constitution that would enable Congress and the states to limit contributions to and expenditures on federal elction campaigns as well as money spent by private individuals supporting or opposing candidates in such campaigns. This constitutional change was offered as an amendment to an underlying constitutional amendment on the Senate floor which would prohibit flag desecration.

The amendment would have overturned the 1976 Supreme Court decision Buckley v. Valeo, which held that under the 1st Amendment campain expenditures were a form of free speech and …