The Hill Lobbyists fear shakedown if Supreme Court lifts campaign contributions cap By Kevin Bogardus– Lobbyists who are active on Washington’s fundraising circuit fear a shakedown is coming if the Supreme Court lifts the cap on contributions to lawmakers and party committees. The high court last week decided to hear a challenge to the aggregate …
Read More →The Los Angeles Times Campaign donations on trial The Supreme Court’s decision to consider ending ‘aggregate’ limits on political contributions is ominous. By: Editorial Board– The Supreme Court long ago established that Americans have a 1st Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts on behalf of a political candidate as long as the money is spent …
Read More →The Washington Post McCutcheon case could give Citizens United a run for its money in Supreme Court By T.W. Farnam– McCutcheon could be the new Citizens United.The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to hear a campaign finance case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, in its next term gives the justices a chance to continue their dismantling …
Read More →The Los Angeles Times Justices to hear appeal of individual donation limits An Alabama donor and Republicans deem the limit of $123,200 per election cycle too low. Critics are troubled by the bid to further erode campaign finance laws. Fred Wertheimer of the campaign finance advocacy group Democracy 21 says striking down the total limits …
Read More →The New York Times Campaign Donations and Political Corruption By: Editorial Board In a deeply worrisome move, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a new campaign finance lawsuit that challenges long-established federal caps on the total amount an individual can contribute to federal campaigns in a two-year cycle. In a ruling last year, …
Read More →SCOTUS Blog Campaign donation issue reopened Lyle Denniston– Giving itself the option of changing its mind on government power to limit campaign contributions, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set the stage for review of the constitutionality of a specific donation ceiling set by federal law, but a larger issue looms in the background Since the Court’s …
Read More →The Huffington Post Dark Money Groups Free To Spend Money Without Disclosure Again After Appeals Court Ruling Paul Blumenthal September 18, 2012 WASHINGTON — An appeals court Tuesday overturned a ruling issued earlier this year that required independent groups spending money in elections to disclose their donors if they ran a certain type of campaign …
Read More →The Los Angeles Times Groups that run election ads may keep donors secret, court rules By Matea Gold September 18, 2012 A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington on Tuesday overturned a decision requiring organizations that run election-related television ads to reveal their funders, saying a lower court erred in finding that Congress intended to …
Read More →The Los Angeles Times Justices may take up Montana campaign finance case addressing two-track system Citizens United and an appeals court ruling created a two-track campaign funding system favoring the wealthy. Now the Supreme Court is being asked to hear a Montana case to address some of the issues. By David G. Savage and Melanie …
Read More →The New York Times Mining for Influence in Montana By BRIAN SCHWEITZER June 4, 2012 Helena, Mont.– In Montana’s frontier days, we learned a hard lesson about money in politics, one that’s shaped our campaign-finance laws for a century and made our political system one of the country’s most transparent. Those laws, and our political …
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