8 research outputs found
McCutcheon Money: The Projected Impact of Striking Aggregate Contribution Limits
Get PDFThis term, the Supreme Court is considering a challenge to aggregate contribution limits in a case called McCutcheon v. FEC. The current limit on what one person may contribute to all federal candidates, parties, and PACs is 3.5 million to a single party's candidates and party committees (plus a virtually unlimited amount to supportive PACs). Under current case law, the Supreme Court should uphold aggregate contribution limits as a decades-old protection against corruption, the appearance of corruption, and circumvention of base contribution limits. But the Roberts court has been willing to toss precedent aside to gut campaign finance laws in the past. So, it's worth asking, what would be the practical effect if the Court strikes a federal contribution limit for the first time
Breaking the Vicious Cycle: How the Supreme Court Helped Create the Inequality Era and Why a New Jurisprudence Must Lead Us Out
Get PDFBreaking the Vicious Cycle: How the Supreme Court Helped Create the Inequality Era and Why a New Jurisprudence Must Lead Us Out
Get PDFBreaking the Vicious Cycle: How the Supreme Court Helped Create the Inequality Era and Why a New Jurisprudence Must Lead Us Out
No full textPanel I: The Rise of Super PACs: Changes in Campaign Finance Law and the Impact on the 2012 Election and Future Elections
No full textState of Campaign Finance Law 2012: A Question of Values
In Defense of Super PACs - And of the First Amendment
Political Equality in the Super PAC Er
Panel I: The Rise of Super PACs: Changes in Campaign Finance Law and the Impact on the 2012 Election and Future Elections
No full textState of Campaign Finance Law 2012: A Question of Values
In Defense of Super PACs - And of the First Amendment
Political Equality in the Super PAC Er
