The Brennan Center represented five Maine officeholders and candidates to defend the constitutionality of the Maine Clean Elections Act ("MCEA"), Maine's full public funding program for candidates for state legislative and gubernatorial races.
In 1999, the Brennan Center was lead counsel for a prominent state senator in five related cases in federal and state court regarding Wisconsin's regulation of issue expenditures.
The Colorado Republican Party challenged the constitutionality of the 1974 restriction imposed by the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) that limited the amount a national or state party can spend on Congressional races as a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech.
