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It's illegal for non-U.S. citizens to give money to candidates in Ohio, and federal law ... The bipartisan Ohio Elections Commission is currently tasked with regulating state campaign finance laws.
U.S. Const. amend. McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an Ohio statute prohibiting anonymous campaign literature is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the freedom of speech.
Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on campaign finance. A majority of justices held that, as provided by section 608 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, limits on election expenditures are unconstitutional. In a per curiam (by the Court) opinion, they ruled that expenditure limits ...
Bradley Alan Smith (born 1958) is the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Professor at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio. He previously served as commissioner, vice chairman, and chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) between 2000 and 2005. He has held prior visiting appointments at Princeton University and West ...
Jul. 27—Millions of dollars are being spent across Ohio campaigning for and against Ohio Issue 1, the constitutional amendment on the Aug. 8 ballot that seeks to make it harder to amend the ...
Jul. 28—Nearly $20 million has already been contributed to the campaigns for and against Ohio Issue 1, the proposed constitutional amendment on the Aug. 8 ballot that would make it harder to ...
Overruled by. Citizens United v. FEC (2010) (in part) McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, 540 U.S. 93 (2003), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of most of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), often referred to as the McCain – Feingold Act.
Campaign finance laws in the United States have been a contentious political issue since the early days of the union. The most recent major federal law affecting campaign finance was the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as " McCain - Feingold ".