Cases

SRINIVASAN, Circuit Judge:' The Federal Election Campaign Act imposes limits on the amounts that an individual may contribute to a candidate for federal office. 52 U.S.C. § 30116(a)(1)(A). Those contribution ceilings, known as FECA’s base limits, aim to prevent the appearance or actuality of corruption associated with large campaign contributions to federal office holders and candidates.

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge RANDOLPH. RANDOLPH, Senior Circuit Judge: Anyone eligible to vote in a Presidential election may bring an action in “the appropriate district court” to determine whether “any provision” of the Federal Election Campaign Act is unconstitutional. 52 U.S.C. § 30110. If the requirements of Article III of the Constitu

OPINION ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge Laura Holmes and Paul Jost challenge the constitutionality of a provision in the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) *125 that limits individual donors to contributing $2,600 per election to candidates running for fe

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) LAURA HOLMES, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 14-1243 (RMC) ) FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, ) ) Defendant. )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ) LAURA HOLMES, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 14-1243 (RMC) ) FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, ) ) Defendant. )

MEMORANDUM OPINION DENYING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, United States District Judge The Federal Election Campaign Act limits donor contributions to $2,600 per candidate, per election (primary, run-off (if any), and general elections). Plaintiffs want to combine their primary and general election contributions so as to increase their contr

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHAUN MCCUTCHEON and MCCUTCHEON FOR FREEDOM, Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 20-2485 (JDB) FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION This case raises overlapping questions of administrative and campaign finance law on the eve of the 2020 elect

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Danny Fabricant, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) Civil Action No. 20-765 (UNA) ) Federal Election Commission et al., )

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LEIGH BROWN et al., Plaintiffs, v. Civil Action No. 19-1021 (TJK) FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Does the First Amendment permit the Federal Election Commission to regulate, through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, long

TED CRUZ FOR SENATE, et al., Plaintiffs v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, et al., Defendants. Civil No. 19-cv-908 (NJR) (APM) (TJK). United States District Court, District of Columbia June 3, 2021. Charles J. Cooper, John D. Ohlendorf, J. Joel Alicea, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, and Chris Gober, The Gober Group PLLC, for Plaintiffs. Lisa J. Stevenson, Kevin Deeley, Harry J. Summers, Seth Nesin, and Tan

Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GARLAND. GARLAND, Chief Judge: Seventy-five years ago, Congress barred individuals and firms from making federal campaign contributions while they negotiate or perform federal contracts. The plaintiffs, who are individual government contractors, contend that this statute violates their First Amendment and equal protec

MEMORANDUM OPINION JAMES E. BOASBERG, District Judge. While foes of campaign-finance laws have repeatedly and successfully challenged limits on political expenditures, limits on political contributions have escaped relatively unscathed. Plaintiffs in this suit aim to change that trend. They seek to invalidate one of the harshest contribution re

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LIBERTARIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, INC., Petitioner, Civil Action No. 16-cv-00121 (BAH) v. Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION The petitioner, the Libertarian

*21 MEMORANDUM OPINION BERYL A. HOWELL, Chief Judge The plaintiff, the Libertarian National Committee (“LNC”), was left a testamentary bequest by Joseph Shaber in 2015 in the amount of $235,575.20 but was allegedly unable to accept the bequest in full due to restrictions imposed by the F

Chief Justice Roberts, with whom Justice Alito joins, concurring. The Government urges us in this case to uphold a direct prohibition on political speech. It asks us to embrace a theory of the First Amendment that would allow censorship not only of television and radio broadcasts, but of pamphlets, *373posters, the Internet, and virtually any other me

Justice Thomas, concurring with respect to BCRA Titles III and IV, except for BCRA §§311 and 318, concurring in the result with respect to BCRA §318, concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part with respect to BCRA Title II, and dissenting with respect to BCRA Titles I, V, and §311.* The First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the fre

508 F.Supp.2d 10 (2007) Christopher SHAYS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Defendant. Civil Action No. 06-1247 (CKK). United States District Court, District of Columbia. September 12, 2007. *11 *12 *13

KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge, concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. “To an imagination of any scope the most far-reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law, 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457, 478 (1897). I believe the statute before us is unconstitu

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ERIC F. MELGREN, District Judge. Does the United States Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”) have the statutory and constitutional authority to deny a state’s request to include its proof-of-citizenship requirement in the state-specific instructions on the federal mail voter registration form? The Plaintiffs — Arizona and Kansas and their secretaries of state — say it does not, a

LUCERO, Circuit Judge. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach sought, on behalf of their respective states, that the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”). add language requiring documentary proof of citizenship to each *1188 state’s instructions on the