Academic Journal
Super PACs
| العنوان: | Super PACs |
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| المؤلفون: | Briffault, Richard |
| المصدر: | Faculty Scholarship |
| بيانات النشر: | Scholarship Archive |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| المجموعة: | Columbia Law School: Scholarship Repository |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | campaign finance, election cycle, political action committee (PAC), Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). Minnesota Law Review, Communications Law, Law, Law and Politics |
| الوصف: | The most striking campaign finance development since the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC in January 2010 has not been an upsurge in corporate and union spending, as might have been expected from a decision invalidating the decades-old laws barring such expenditures. Instead, federal election campaigns have been marked by the emergence of an entirely new campaign vehicle, which uses – but is not primarily dependent on – corporate or union funds, and which threatens to upend the federal campaign regulatory regime in place since 1974. The 2010 election cycle witnessed the birth of the "Super PAC" – a political action committee legally entitled to raise donations in unlimited amounts. Nonexistent and probably illegal before the spring of 2010, Super PACs spent an estimated $65 million on independent expenditures in 2010, and were significant players in more than a dozen Senate and House races. By early 2012, Super PACs were already major participants in the 2011-2012 election cycle, significantly outspending the candidates in the early Republican presidential nominating contests. Some Super PACs had spent millions of dollars on Senate general election contests that were more than ten months away. Although some Super PAC funds come from corporations and unions, the vast majority have been provided by wealthy individuals who, well before Citizens United, were permitted to spend unlimited sums independently, but were subject to a federal statutory limit of $5000 on the amounts they could give to the federal PACs that expressly support or oppose federal candidates. Citizens United did not address the statutory limits on individual donations to PACs. The Court's overruling of Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the pertinent part of McConnell v. Federal FEC focused on the constitutional status of corporate campaign participation and the protection of independent spending, not on the rules governing contributions to political committees. The authorization of Super PACs followed directly from ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/910; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/context/faculty_scholarship/article/1925/viewcontent/96_Minn._L._Rev._1644.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/910 https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/context/faculty_scholarship/article/1925/viewcontent/96_Minn._L._Rev._1644.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.75ECD3C2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |