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18 Jan 2012, 11:42 am
After and following Citizens United, the courts (most importantly in Speechnow) and the FEC provided a blessing for independent only expenditure committees (Super PACs) to collect unlimited sums from individuals, labor unions, and corporations. [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 5:05 pm
Although the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case had found that the availability of a separate political action committee (PAC) for a corporation was not a sufficient substitute for a right to spend freely from its own treasury, since a PAC was hard to create and maintain, the Montana court said the state’s law made it easy to create a corporate PAC. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 1:53 pm
"This committee will help us prioritize the work that needs to be done and empower citizens and the Forest Service to work together through the entire process of ecological restoration work, from identifying needs on the landscape to achieving ecological objectives in ways that provide jobs and protect local communities from wildfire. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 1:14 pm
Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 11:00 am
Speaking about its choice for Attorney General, Peter Sherwin, chair of the Citizens Union board, said, "Eric Schneiderman has been a consistent and independent force for change in state government, and represents the best choice to lead an enterprising office that has gained great stature under its recent predecessors. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 2:54 pm
That committee then nominates a slate of qualified applicants presented to the Governor for eventual appointment. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 2:54 pm
That committee then nominates a slate of qualified applicants presented to the Governor for eventual appointment. [read post]
7 Feb 2013, 1:40 pm
Ironically, the full formal name of the CIRM governing board is the "Independent Citizens Oversight Committee," a piece of political legerdemain to mask the actual nature of who would sit on the board. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 7:17 am
FEC has changed the rules with regard to contributions to independent expenditure committees (one of too many law firm “client alerts” on the meaning of Citizens United can be found here). [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 7:44 am
When I taught at Berkeley, I used to chair the university committee that invited Tanner Lecturers to campus. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 1:34 pm
In the Citizens United decision, the Court struck down any federal limits on campaign spending by groups that are not directly tied to federal candidates or their campaign organizations — that is, independent groups. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
Through the January 6th Committee hearings, we are learning more about Trump’s effort in 2020 to have state legislatures overturn the will of their voters and appoint their own preferred slate of electors. [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 3:40 am
"Sara Taylor, until recently a federal official but now a private citizen, is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, pursuant to a subpoena. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 7:14 pm
First, it stated that “FDA is not required to make an independent determination concerning whether the membership of the convened advisory committee satisfies the FACA fair balance standard. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 3:53 pm
I also looked at just the top 10 independent spending committees, and drawing inferences about the funding. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 11:28 am
Three months later, in Republican National Committee v. [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 8:15 am
Citizens United did liberate corporate and union general-treasury funds to engage in independent election spending, but it did not otherwise change the constitutional architecture originally constructed in Buckley v. [read post]
26 Jul 2020, 7:28 pm
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics held consultations, and released a report in June 2016. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 3:35 am
The latter move is effectively barred by the Court; new regulation of independent expenditures by outside groups would be constitutionally problematic under Citizens United. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 1:51 pm
Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United case, which allows unlimited corporate contributions to political groups so long as they are independent of candidates and their committees. [read post]
