When I talked about this a couple of years with a representative from a major conservative organization, he said that everybody KNOWS it's unconstitutional, but that the way the process works, it will take 5 years to get up to the US Supreme Court, during which time people will have a feeling of being under watch, so that it WILL suppress some free speech just by being passed. Who will take the risk of multi-million dollar fines from the FEC by doing what has always been legal (e.g. privately-financed ads for or against specific candidates by name shortly before an alection)?
This does not mean at all that that the FEC would initiate suit, but that our left-wing opponents could use it as a club. It only takes about $60 to start a lawsuit against anybody for any reason at all, so, for a few years, we all can look forward to being sued by some motivated left-winger, using as a weapon in his arsenal the fact that this stupid law WAS PASSED BY CONGRESS.
What it says to me is that our federal government is completly out of control...
And to think that our President will probably sign it....
If he does, he's the biggest RINO of all!