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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…

McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission

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October 4, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the biennial contribution limits case McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission on Tuesday, October 8th. The suit challenges the ...

Media Watch: How Not to Report the News

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September 17, 2013   •  By Brad Smith   •  

Here’s a great example of reporting that is not specifically inaccurate, but is highly misleading, and it would appear intentionally so. From The Baltimore Sun ...

Do State Ethics Commissions Reduce Political Corruption? An Exploratory Investigation
August 1, 2013   •  By Matt Nese   •  ,

Political corruption is typically defined as “crimes by public officials for personal gain.”1 But there should be no doubt about the corrosive effects of malfeasance among ...

Wagner v. FEC

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July 10, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  , , ,

The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) and the Cato Institute filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief urging that strict scrutiny must be applied to a law that ...

Media Watch: Unethical attack by CREW’s Melanie Sloan
May 1, 2013   •  By David Keating   •  ,

Melanie Sloan today took an unethical shot at Federal Election Commissioner Donald McGahn, writing in Politico that he “has boasted, ‘I’m not enforcing the ...

Smith, Wang, Discuss FEC Reform at GW Panel
May 1, 2013   •  By David Silvers   •  ,

On Tuesday, CCP Chairman Brad Smith and CCP Senior Legal Fellow Eric Wang participated in a panel, “The Future of the Federal Election Commission ...

CCP Comments to the FEC in response to Notice 2013-01, Request for Comment on Enforcement Process
April 22, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  ,

The Center for Competitive Politics submitted comments [today,Friday] to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in response to Notice 2013-01, Request for Comment on Enforcement ...

FEC Stoops to a New Low, or a Mountain out of a Molehill?

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April 8, 2013   •  By David Keating   •  

The Campaign Legal Center’s Paul Ryan recently charged that the FEC stooped “to a new low” because the agency failed to hound a mysterious ...

Carey v. FEC

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March 20, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  , , ,

The federal suit, Carey et al v. FEC, asks the FEC to acknowledge what the courts have already decided: that any political action committee may ...

James v. FEC

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March 20, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

The Center for Competitive Politics legal team, led by Legal Director Allen Dickerson, filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of ...

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