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Federal Election Commission determined, among other things, that it would be basically not possible for the federal government to be in the business of determining what does and does not constitute issue advocacy or express advocacy.
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. , 551 U.S. 449 (2007), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that issue ads may not be banned from the months preceding a primary or general election.
The conflict comes from the U.S. Supreme Court's 1976 Buckley decision that limited the federal definition of political committee to include organizations where express advocacy is "the major ...
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"The Supreme Court has made it crystal clear: The First Amendment leaves it to journalists—and not the courts, the government, or candidates for office—to decide how to report the news."
Federal Election Commission, ... the owner’s hosting a livestream event with a candidate featuring express advocacy is a departure from these usual hosting-and-content-moderation functions ...
Super-PACs, as they would come to be called, began to pop up everywhere. Free to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, super-PACs dominate election spending in the United States. These independent expenditure-only committees, raise money from corporations, unions, and individuals with free rein to express advocacy as they choose.
A 527 organization or 527 group is a type of U.S. tax-exempt organization organized under Section 527 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 527).A 527 group is created primarily to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office.