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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…

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 ...

Libertarian National Committee v. FEC

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March 20, 2013   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

The case was filed in 2011 and concerned the estate of Raymond Groves Burrington of Knox County, Tennessee, who left the Libertarian Party $217,734 ...

Comments on FEC Rulemaking: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 12-80: Limited Liability Partnerships
February 11, 2013   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 12-80: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs).   Currently, if ...

Bauerly Vacancy May Not be Harbinger of Things to Come

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January 14, 2013   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

Cynthia Bauerly, one of the three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, has decided to vacate her seat, and there’s some debate as to what ...

CCP Urges FEC to Initiate Rulemaking
December 20, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  , ,

The Center for Competitive Politics today filed comments supporting a Petition for Rulemaking submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by the Center for ...

Van Hollen Reversal a Victory for Free Speech

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September 18, 2012   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  

This morning, a unanimous federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s invalidation of an FEC regulation dealing with donor privacy. The lower court had ...

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