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The Federal Election Commission announced updated contribution limits for the 2025-2026 election cycle...more
Today, the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) released increased contribution limits for the 2025-2026 election cycle. The increased limits apply to contributions from individuals and non-multicandidate PACs to federal...more
On March 15, 2024, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Lindke v. Freed and a per curiam opinion in O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier addressing when a public official may prevent a person from commenting on the public...more
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance,...more
It is fair, I think, to say that a substantial majority of those who heard the argument in the case of Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate doubted that, irrespective of whatever they might think of Ted Cruz, it...more
On May 16, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Election Comm’n v. Ted Cruz for Senate, No. 21-12, holding that the federal statute that prohibits repaying campaign-finance loans over $250,000 with money raised after...more
On this episode, Wiley Election Law & Government Ethics partners Mark Renaud and Andrew Woodson discuss how primary elections affect the campaign finance regime in election years. Andrew and Mark explain the top ten things...more
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently announced a $16,000 civil penalty against a political campaign, to settle allegations that the campaign had inappropriately used FEC contributor data in an algorithm used to aid...more
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) recently announced increased federal contribution limits for the 2021-2022 election cycle. Certain federal contribution limits are indexed for inflation and adjustments are made in...more
All federally registered PACs and party committees and all federal campaign committees for candidates participating in the 2020 general election are required to file Post-General Reports with the FEC by midnight EST on...more
It isn’t just the Federal Election Commission political action committees (PACs) need to worry about. Our Federal Tax Group examines the tax pitfalls for tax-exempt organizations and one worrisome IRS ruling in particular....more
Although it may feel like the 2020 presidential election year has already been here for months (or years), the calendar finally reads 2020. Before you get too busy with 2020, we wanted to share a few useful tips for your PAC...more
On August 3, 2018, Judge Beryl Howell, the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a ruling invalidating long-standing Federal Election Commission (FEC) regulations because the FEC had...more
A straw donor scheme is a term used to describe a scheme that a person or entity uses to evade campaign finance contribution limits. For example, the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) limits a partnership to contributing...more
In Holmes v. FEC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously rejected an argument that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (FECA) base limits on individual contributions to candidates violated...more
The U.S. government reached settlements with two federal lobbyist registrants recently in what appears to signal increased enforcement of political activity laws. On August 28, 2015, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the...more