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Appeals Court Broadens Citizens United Ruling
The US. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that is unconstitutional to impose limits on individual donations to organizations involved in independent expenditures in elections.
In Speech Now vs the Federal Elections Commission, the court said that since the Supreme Court had ruled in Citizens United vs the FEC that there was no potential for corruption with independent expenditures, there is no reason to limit individual contributions to organizations like 527s.
The Institute for Justice and the Center for Competitive Politics hailed the ruling as a victory for free speech. "The court affirmed that groups of passionate individuals, like billionaires--and corporations and unions after Citizens United--have the right to spend without limit to independently advocate for or against federal candidates," said Stephen M. Hoersting, vice president for the center and co-counsel in the SpeechNow case.
Campaign finance reform groups assailed it, saying it will increase the likelihood that a flood of corporate and union money would pour into elections. "To say that [corporations and unions] won't drown out the voices of citizen is ludicrous," said Lisa Gilbert, democracy advocate as U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
You can read the opinion here:
Separately, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the ban on soft money contributions to the political parties, a victory for campaign finance advocates.
See the opinion here:
Soft Money opinion.pdfOf the SpeechNow opinion today, Michael Zolandz, a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal said he thinks that: "Essentially [it] creates three "types" of federal PACs -- independent expenditure PACs, traditional PACs that contribute hard dollars to candidates, and potentially a "mixed" PAC that would be subject to limits if it makes both independent expenditures and hard dollar contributions. It [also] means that independent expenditure groups can "choose" to deal with the FEC instead of the IRS if they make any federal independent expenditures."
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