{"id":184823,"date":"2012-01-11T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/11\/supreme-courts-says-that-there-are-limits-to-campaign-donations\/"},"modified":"2012-01-11T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T02:45:00","slug":"supreme-courts-says-that-there-are-limits-to-campaign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/11\/supreme-courts-says-that-there-are-limits-to-campaign-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Courts Says that there are Limits to Campaign Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you are a foreign <b>person<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/09\/supreme-court-retains-ban-on-foreign-campaign-donations\/\">you are still forbidden from making campaign donations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>In a terse four words, the Supreme Court on Monday issued an order upholding prohibitions against foreigners making contributions to influence American elections.<\/p>\n<p>The decision clamped shut an opening that some thought the court had created two years ago in its Citizens United decision, when it relaxed campaign-finance limits on corporations and labor unions. On Monday the Supreme Court, upholding a lower court\u2019s decision in Bluman, et al., v. Federal Election Commission, refused to extend its reasoning in Citizens United to cover foreigners living temporarily here.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign nationals, other than lawful permanent residents, are completely banned from donating to candidates or parties, or making independent expenditures in federal, state or local elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s order did not discuss the merits or suggest that there was any dissent among the justices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It sounds to me like they just said that foreign <b>persons<\/b> cannot make campaign donations, but under <i>Citizens United<\/i>, foreign <b>corporations<\/b> can.<\/p>\n<p>Our political system, brought to you by BMW, the ultimate driving machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you are a foreign person, you are still forbidden from making campaign donations: In a terse four words, the Supreme Court on Monday issued an order upholding prohibitions against foreigners making contributions to influence American elections. The decision clamped shut an opening that some thought the court had created two years ago in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}