Kenneth Starr to lead legal team challenging campaign finance legislation

Associated Press ^ | 3-21-02 | JIM ABRAMS

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

My gut reaction is that this is a BIG mistake.

[eno_]

Uh yeah. I almost expect him to announce he's hiring Jane Swift to help him.

[HOYA97]

I had the same reaction as the other posts.

[Revolting cat!]

Oh no! Man the boats, the ship is sinking!

[Mr. Lucky]

Which means he'll putz around for five years and then dismiss the case.

[Capitalist Eric]

Kenneth Starr to lead legal team challenging campaign finance legislation...

Well, now I feel so much better... Starr will make sure the truth comes out... I am absolutely certain of Starr's ability as a lawyer...

< /SARCASM >

[duck soup]

McConnell and his team said they would focus on a provision that bars the use of soft money 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election for "issue ads" that refer directly to a candidate.

Hmmm.

[Orbiter]

Oh, the venerable Mr.. Starr, huh? THAT dog don't hunt.

[MamaLucci]

...and he has Attorney General John Ashcroft's assurance that the Justice Department would defend the statute's constitutionality.

Now, this is insane. Ashcroft is on the record assailing this type of bill as unconstitutional.
I suppose he will recuse himself, as usual.

[deport]

fyi.... reckon we can get them to look at the Ron Brown case while there?

[swampfox98]

Oh, no! We're hosed.

[RnMomof7]

If he does the same job he did with Whitewater it will be a whitewash...Good bye free speech!

[ex-Texan]

Ken Starr ought to immediately recuse himself. Big Mistake. HUGE GOP MISTAKE !

Starr is forever tainted by the musky scent of sex in the Clinton impeachment trial.

Go away, get a life, enough!

[Howlin]

FYI.

[Spirited]

How unfortunate. He is bound to be well paid to do nothing in particular and everything in general which would make a real test of the legislation impossible.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Other members of McConnell's legal team are: James Bopp, general counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech; Bobby Burchfield, an election lawyer who was involved in the Buckley v. Valeo case; Washington election lawyer Jan Baran; and Kathleen Sullivan, dean of the Stanford University Law School.

Anyone know about these folks?

[joyce11111]

Well...you can count on a loss.

[Sabertooth]

WASHINGTON (AP) --  Kenneth Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel, will lead the court challenge seeking to overturn large parts of the campaign finance bill passed by Congress.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, expected to be the lead plaintiff in the case, said Thursday that his legal team would be led by Starr, who gained national prominence in his pursuit of former President Clinton over the Whitewater land deal and the Monica Lewinsky case, and by First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams.

Nice move, McConnell!

If Bush signs CFR, the Dems will link him and Starr at the hip.

Way too funny... you think this could be McConnell's plan?

[KantianBurke]

Irrespective of Starr's judicial talents or lack thereof, his unintended seedy connection to Bubba will make destroying the anti-CFR campaign waaaay too easy. Big mistake and besides there MUST be other good laywers in DC that could do this no?

[Howlin]

Kathleen Sullivan I have heard of.

Ken Starr is an EXCELLENT constitutional attorney.