The lawsuit filed by Clifford adds new information that underscores arguments Common Cause made in its January 2018 complaints to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging the hush money payment was a violation
of federal campaign finance law.
A super PAC pushing an overhaul of
federal campaign finance laws last week sent two mailers in the 18th congressional district, targeting Republican former Rep. Nan Hayworth.
He had many notable successes — in the Court's recent series of decisions related to the war on terror; in limiting federal preemption of state law (Wyeth v. Levine);
upholding federal campaign finance laws (McConnell v. FEC); and in the environmental area (Massachusetts v. EPA).
Under federal campaign finance law, any «expenditures» by a candidate or agent of a candidate or in coordination with a candidate must be reported by the candidate's committee to the FEC.
Federal campaign finance laws and regulations require political ads and certain other communications to bear disclaimers disclosing who financed them.
This article provides an introduction to
federal campaign finance laws, including their history, content, and administration.
Councilmember Corey Johnson took Transition and Inauguration contributions from a hotel magnate who pled guilty yesterday to violations of
federal campaign finance law.
Attorney Reid Weingarten was understandably disappointed in the jury verdict earlier this month that found his client, former Gov. John G. Rowland, guilty of several offenses including violation of
federal campaign financing laws.
«We have always been confident that there was no wrongdoing in the way in which the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee operated during the 2014 elections and that we complied fully with both the letter and the spirit of state and
federal campaign finance laws,» Connecticut Democratic Party Executive Director Michael Mandell said in a statement.
«If, as alleged, the defendant directed others to make contributions to a Senate campaign and reimbursed them, that is a serious violation of
federal campaign finance laws.»
On November 9, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that the Federal Election Commission had no duty to investigate whether this spending violated
the federal campaign finance laws.
The Federal Election Commission today unanimously approved an advisory opinion finding that a blog qualifies for the «press exception» to
federal campaign finance law.
A violation of
federal campaign finance laws must be prosecuted by a federal government lawyer authorized to do so by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), which has an even partisan balance of members by design and almost always deadlocks on motions to prosecute anything but the least controversial and most blatant campaign finance violations against members of either of the two major political parties in the United States.
Here's why: Under
federal campaign finance law, a trade association is permitted to solicit contributions for its federal PAC only from its restricted class, which includes its members, executive and administrative personnel, and their families.
(applied against
your federal campaign finance law contribution limit of $ 5,000 per year to RPAC.)