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Experts on campaign finance are much less cynical than the public about the nefarious influence of money in politics. [42] "Legal scholars and social scientists say the evidence is meager, at best, that the post-Watergate campaign finance system has accomplished the broad goals its supporters asserted." [41]
An infographic explaining the American system of campaign finance, by the Sunlight Foundation. Campaign finance – also called election finance, political donations, or political finance – refers to the funds raised to promote candidates, political parties, or policy initiatives and referendums.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court regarding campaign finance laws, in which the Court found that laws restricting the political spending of corporations and unions are inconsistent with the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
According to FEC filings, Menendez’s campaign paid more than $2.3 million to five different law firms in the last quarter of 2023 in the wake of his September indictment (campaign expenditure ...
The committee unanimously found Monday that while some lawmakers did “not fully comply” with standards relating to personal use of campaign funds and campaign finance reporting requirements ...
The current campaign finance regime was born in 1971 when Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act, which was then expanded in 1974 following Watergate revelations about illegal campaign ...
The first federal campaign finance law, passed in 1867, was a Naval Appropriations Bill which prohibited officers and government employees from soliciting contributions from Navy yard workers. Later, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 established the civil service and extended the protections of the Naval Appropriations Bill to all ...
Campaign finance records published this week confirm that Harpo Productions received two $500,000 payments from the Harris campaign for its work on the September event.