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Description: As we enter the 2016 election season, campaign finance regulation is a hot political and constitutional topic. Hillary Clinton has suggested that she would support overturning Citizens United v. FEC - the Supreme Court's 2010 decision declaring limits on "independent expenditures" unconstitutional - a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. The Illinois General Assembly and some other state legislatures have endorsed amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United.
Since Citizens United, however, the Supreme Court has removed additional restrictions on campaign contributions, ruling last year in McCutcheon v. FEC that aggregate contribution limits violate the First Amendment. Meanwhile, independent groups are raising and spending large sums to influence 2016 elections, while candidates and their supporters must still contend with limits on how much they can respectively receive and give.
This seminar will consider both where the law stands - that is, what restrictions are and are not constitutional under the Supreme Court's jurisprudence to date, and why - and where it should go in the future. It will also include a practitioner's perspective on how campaign finance restrictions actually affect candidates, and whether the courts' campaign finance decisions adequately account for that reality.
TOPICS AND SPEAKERS:
THE SUPREME COURT'S CAMPAIGN FINANCE JURISPRUDENCE: AN OVERVIEW
Speaker to be announced.
WHY CITIZENS UNITED WAS WRONG AND THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ALLOW GREATER RESTRICTIONS ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
David Melton, Executive Director, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
CAMPAIGN FINANCE RESTRICTIONS: AN ELECTION LAWYER'S PERSPECTIVE
John Fogarty, Jr., Law Office of John Fogarty, Jr.
PANEL DISCUSSION
 | | Practice Areas: | | Constitutional Law, Election, Campaign & Political Law | | | Online Media Type: | | Video | | | Production Date: | | 02/04/2016 | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 2 Hours, 11 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | On Demand | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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| | • | David Melton - Executive Director, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform | | • | John Fogarty, Jr. - Law Office of John Fogarty, Jr. |
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