Brennan Center Argues Court Should Respect Missouri State Legislature's $1,075 Limit, and Affirm Buckley v. Valeo Reasoning That Contribution Caps Prevent Corruption
The Brennan Center, Common Cause, and Democracy 21 today urged President Clinton not to nominate Bradley A. Smith to serve on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) if his name is submitted as a potential nominee.
In a case that may greatly impact federal and state campaign finance laws, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted certiorari in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, a challenge to the constitutionality of Missouri's $1,075 campaign contribution l
Newspapers across the nation have largely reported gloom and doom, as a result of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation ("ACLF").
Responding to the Federal Election Commission's request for comments, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and four Representatives have advised the FEC that it has an affirmative legal duty to enact regulations that will close the "soft mo
Nine former leaders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today publicly released a joint statement declaring that the current ACLU leadership has misread the First Amendment as it applies to campaign finance laws and that significant campaign fina
