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Petition of the day

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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.

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/