Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Mar 3, 2017
Thepetition of the day is:
16-832
Issues:(1) Whether the First Amendment permits the government to ban or limit independent-spending donations to a political committee that segregates those donations in a separate bank account to be used only for independent spending; and (2) whether a complete ban on any political committees financial contribution to any other political committee for any purpose is an adequately tailored constitutional means to achieve a state’s interest in effective campaign-finance disclosure.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Alabama Democratic Conference v. Marshall
Recommended Citation:
Kate Howard,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Mar. 3, 2017, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/03/petition-of-the-day-1104/