The Obama complaint against American Leadership Project and nine named individual respondents is available at The Politico.
Category: Const Law Issues
Leaky Definitions in North Carolina
The Fourth Circuit weighed-in (North Carolina Right to Life v. Leake) on parts of North Carolina’s campaign finance laws and found them constitutionally deficient, including the law’s use of context in certain circumstances, the law’s major purpose test, and an aspect of the the contribution limitation. The majority opinion is 50 pages, which for a campaign finance opinion […]
Getting Ads Pulled
Parties and campaigns seek to have opponents’ ads pulled from the airwaves. I recently noted a case where one candidate sought a court order to prevent his opponent’s spot from being broadcast. Another controversy has resulted in requests to stations to pull an ad. In the Lousiana case I mentioned, the judge ordered a campaign to […]