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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…

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 ...

The "Reform Community" discovers it has gone bald: The FEC, disclosure timelines, and Little Jerry Seinfeld

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July 18, 2014   •  By Brad Smith   •  

Bob Biersack took to the pages of The New York Times this week to bemoan what he termed a failure of the Federal Election ...

Center for Competitive Politics v. Federal Election Commission
June 25, 2014   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) filed a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) seeking a controversial agency document denied to CCP despite a Freedom of ...

Freedom of Information Act Appeal (FEC)
April 29, 2014   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

On April 3, 2014, the Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”) requested an unredacted copy of the First General Counsel’s Report, dated June 22, 2011, ...

Dysfunction and Belief at the FEC

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April 22, 2014   •  By David Mason   •  

Former FEC GC Larry Noble has offered his take on the public dispute between FEC Vice Chair Ann Ravel and the FEC’s Republican commissioners.  ...

Comments on Advisory Opinion 2013-18: Revolution Messaging, LLC
January 15, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

It should be noted that neither exception requires that the inclusion of a disclaimer be impossible. Draft A in particular notes that, for the ...

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