• Look out FEC… here comes another lawsuit

  Filed under election law
  Feb 14

  Happy Valentine’s Day FEC! SpeechNow.org is filing a lawsuit against the FEC today, asking a federal court to allow it to advocate for or against federal candidates without having to comply with contribution limits. The way things have been going in these cases, the SpeechNow.org argument has a really strong chance of succeeding… it takes no corporate money and it does not coordinate with federal candidates nor make contributions to federal candidates. It’s (kind of… sort of) akin to the successful arguments made decades ago in MCFL. If that rings a bell, that case opened things up for certain types of ideological 501(c)(4) organizations to make independent expenditures.

  In any event, pay attention to this one if you want your nonprofit to be able to engage in more election-related advocacy. It’s got a lot of election lawyers taking notice.

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