James Buckley, a former U.S. senator from New York and a former judge on the U.S. Appeals Court for Washington D.C., died Friday at the age of 100.
Buckley is famous for challenging campaign finance laws in the wake of a post-Watergate world in the landmark Supreme Court case Buckley v. Valeo.
William F. Buckley, Jr., right, founder of the National Review, checks the program with three guests, during the 20th anniversary celebration of the conservative magazine. With Buckley is his brother, Sen. James L. Buckley , left, former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, center, and Sen. Barry Goldwater .to resign and to pull the nation"out of the Watergate swamp" and save the office of the presidency.
Buckley lost his senate seat in a reelection campaign to Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1976, the same year he officially switched to the Republican Party. He later served in the Reagan administration as an undersecretary for security assistance in the U.S. Department of State and was later nominated by Reagan to a position as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital.
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