In November the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, will hear Libertarian National Committee v Federal Election Commission, 18-5227. This is the case that challenges the FEC ruling that forbids parties to receive large bequests from deceased individuals, all at once. Instead the money must be put in escrow and doled out in lumps of $33,900 each calendar year, which could be decades if the bequest is large enough.
Both sides have agreed to let the Goldwater Institute file an amicus curiae brief. The Institute says its brief will deal with the issue of content-based speech restrictions. Clearly the brief will be on the side of the Libertarian National Committee. The Goldwater Institute was formed in 1988 to defend freedom of speech.
NO dollar amount in the 1st Amdt —
regardless of ALL campaign finance math MORONS since day 1 of the FEC.
The whole evil rotted mess is UN-constitutional.
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One HACK candidate can always claim —
ALL of my HACK opponent candidates are HACK tools of the special interest gangs who give such opponent candidates millions, billions, trillions of un-reported SECRET $$$ *donations* to CONTROL them.
I, the good HACK candidate, report ALL the donations that I get.
Of course they should get it all at once. Those who think they shouldn’t simply don’t believe in free speech.