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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…

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 ...

Should Government Track Your Political Activity (Video)
September 10, 2012   •  By Brad Smith   •  , , ,

Professor Brad Smith asks you to imagine the following scenario: at the height of the War on Terror, the government passes a second PATRIOT ...

NDPAC AOR
July 26, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Center for Competitive Politics Legal Director Allen Dickerson joined attorney Benjamin T. Barr and local counsel Dan Backer of DB Capitol Strategies in filing ...

FEC Approves Donations Via Text

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June 12, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

In a unanimous decision yesterday, The Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved a proposal to allow small dollar donations to candidates via text after rejecting ...

Campaign Donations via Text May be on the Horizon

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May 25, 2012   •  By Sarah Lee   •  

It doesn’t happen often but sometimes the boys meet on the  political battlefield with white flags hoisted and agree — not agree to disagree, ...

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