{"id":189450,"date":"2010-03-26T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/26\/mixed-ruling-on-campaign-finance\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:02:00","slug":"mixed-ruling-on-campaign-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/26\/mixed-ruling-on-campaign-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Ruling on Campaign Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/26\/AR2010032602436.html\">consequence of the Citizens United case<\/a>, and the ruling was that independent advocacy groups can raise donations of any size, striking the $5000 limits but the disclosure requirements stand, and, in a separate ruling, the contribution limit remains for party organizations<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/26\/rnc-loses-bid-to-raise-un_n_514794.html\">promising an appeal of the latter ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not an unalloyed bad day for campaign finance reform, but on a scale of 1-10, I&#8217;d give it a 3-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a consequence of the Citizens United case, and the ruling was that independent advocacy groups can raise donations of any size, striking the $5000 limits but the disclosure requirements stand, and, in a separate ruling, the contribution limit remains for party organizations The Republican National Committee is promising an appeal of the latter &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-189450","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\/189450"}],"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=189450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}