标题: 约翰-C-博尼法兹 律师和投票权倡导者 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-13 01:19 标题: 约翰-C-博尼法兹 律师和投票权倡导者 John C. Bonifaz
Lawyer and Voting Rights Advocate | Class of 1999
Title
Lawyer and Voting Rights Advocate
Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Age
33 at time of award
Area of Focus
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Published July 1, 1999
ABOUT JOHN'S WORK
John Bonifaz is a public interest lawyer who uses innovative litigation to reexamine campaign finance reform arguments typically debated on first amendment grounds.
Through the National Voting Rights Institute, Bonifaz recasts legal arguments to focus on fourteenth amendment protections, challenging the relationship between money and politics. His pioneering Yale Law and Policy Review article, “Equal Protection and the Wealth Primary” (1994), which he co-authored, outlines the legal strategy with which he and the Institute have approached the controversial 1976 Buckley v. Valeo Supreme Court ruling. While Buckley v. Valeo equates campaign spending with first amendment free speech, Bonifaz examines campaign financing from the standpoint of fourteenth amendment equal protection rights. This strategy places campaign finance practices in a tradition of voting rights law, and asks whether these practices are fair and democratic and whether money effectively disenfranchises those unable to contribute to political campaigns. On both affirmative and defensive fronts, Bonifaz and the Institute are leading the legal movement to identify new and compelling arguments in support of reform.
BIOGRAPHY
Bonifaz is founder and general counsel for the National Voting Rights Institute and an attorney in the law offices of Cristobal Bonifaz.
Bonifaz received a B.A. (1989) from Brown University and a J.D. (1992) from Harvard Law School.
通过国家投票权研究所，博尼法兹重塑法律论点，将重点放在第十四修正案的保护上，挑战金钱和政治之间的关系。他与人合著的《耶鲁大学法律与政策评论》（Yale Law and Policy Review）的开创性文章 "平等保护和财富初选"（1994年），概述了他和研究所处理有争议的1976年巴克利诉瓦莱奥最高法院裁决的法律策略。Buckley v. Valeo案将竞选开支等同于第一修正案中的言论自由，而Bonifaz则从第十四修正案中的平等保护权利的角度来研究竞选资金。这一策略将竞选融资做法置于投票权法的传统中，并询问这些做法是否公平和民主，以及金钱是否有效地剥夺了那些无法为政治运动捐款的人的权利。 在肯定性和防御性两方面，博尼法兹和研究所正在领导法律运动，以确定支持改革的新的和令人信服的论据。