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FEC: An Agency Tasked with Regulating First Amendment Activity
January 1, 2018  •  By IFS Staff  •    •  

The Federal Election Commission is the independent agency charged with enforcing federal campaign finance law and enacting campaign finance regulations. The FEC was created after the Nixon Administration’s Justice Department pursued criminal campaign finance charges against the President’s critics. In light of that effort, Congress correctly rejected the idea of letting a future president effectively control a government agency tasked…

Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years: Should Liberals Support Citizens United? (Video)

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January 27, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Stuart Taylor, Jr., Author, freelance writer, and Brookings Institution Nonresident Senior Fellow (Interviewer) Ira Glasser, former Executive Director, ACLU Wendy Kaminer, Author, lawyer, social ...

Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years: The Story Behind the Lawsuit (Video)

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January 27, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

David M. Drucker, Senior Congressional Correspondent, The Washington Examiner (Interviewer) Michael Boos, General Counsel, Citizens United

Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years: The Impact on Parties in the Age of Citizens United: Are Changes Needed? (Video)

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January 27, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Peter Overby, NPR News (Interviewer) Joel Gora, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Neil Reiff, Founding Partner, Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, P.C. ...

Brad Smith’s Comments on Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Response to McCutcheon v. FEC
January 16, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

On October 9, 2014, the Commission issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Response to McCutcheon v. FEC, 134 S. Ct. 1434 (2014). ...

Lee Goodman on Fox & Friends

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October 27, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

Federal Election Commission Chairman Lee Goodman discusses the recent vote over expanding the FEC’s authority to regulate election-related Internet videos:

FEC In the News: Regulating Internet Speech, Discouraging Movie Screenings, and Country Wide Tours

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October 27, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

The Federal Election Commission and its commissioners have made quite a few headlines recently, the latest stemming from FEC Vice Chairwoman Ann Ravel’s statement ...

Nixon and the Federal Election Campaign Act (Video)

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October 12, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

Below is a transcript of an exchange at the AmericanForum: How we finance our political campaigns debate, about the first case litigated under the Federal Elections Campaign Act: ...

Letter to FEC Commissioners on Rulemakings
October 7, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Dear Commissioners: We are writing this letter as individuals who, in various capacities but over many years, have experience with the interpretation and administration of ...

Independence Institute v. FEC
September 30, 2014   •  By IFS staff   •  , , , ,

Can a think tank run ads advocating for public policy without first disclosing its donors to the federal government? That is the question at ...

Holmes v. FEC
July 29, 2014   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

Can a campaign contribution restriction be based solely on the time of year it was given under the guise of fighting corruption, or do ...

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