Money in politics has always been a touchy issue. From McCain-Feingold to Citizen’s United, the battle to balance respect for free speech with the legitimate threat of corruption and undue influence has been a divisive one. Solutions that have been proposed range from having publicly financed elections to removing all restrictions on donations have been proposed. This section addresses money, elections, and the unavoidable relationship between the two.
The legal line between tax exempt non-profit organizations dedicated to charity or promoting the social welfare and politically focused electioneering operations like candidate committees has become blurry at best. Former.
The filing deadline for political groups to turn records to the FEC is Monday the 15th. Big players like Obama’s Organizing for Action have already posted their earnings for the first quarter following the 2012 election.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism held a hearing earlier this week examining the Federal Elections Commission’s enforcement, or rather lack thereof, regarding campaign finance laws.
The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) cleaned house in March of hundreds of inactive, joke, or otherwise defunct super PACs, also called “zombie super PACs.”
Public Citizen, a non-partisan corporate and government watchdog organization, released a study that analyzed outside spending during the 2012 election. The study concluded that the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision…
In the highfalutin world of campaign finance and election spending hybrid Super PAC’s are becoming more popular. Although they’ve been legal ever since the 2011 court decision in Carey v Federal Elections Commission (FEC), hybrid Super PACs are cropping up with surprising frequency.
Apart from the hundreds of thousands of comments on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule making petition on the subject, pressure is continuing to grow surrounding a potential SEC decision …
