"The part that has not worked out and really was a mistake were the attempts to place limitations on campaign ads in certain parts of the process," the former 'Law & Order' actor said. "The Supreme Court has got better things to do then to hear a hundred different cases on a hundred different kinds of ads," he said of a process he feels has spawned a large amount of bureaucracy, diverted resources, and put "unfair limitations" on people. "I don't think that part of it was a good idea."
Thompson was a major supporter of McCain-Feingold, and if memmory serves did not have this opinion on the electioneering communications regime that the Supreme Court tossed earlier this year. No comment, other than to say two words... political expediency.
UPDATE... apparently Thompson once asked the bill to be called McCain-Feingold-Thompson. Not anymore, I guess...
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