Legal Opinion
Shays v. Federal Election Commission
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 15, 2005No. 04-5352PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge TATEL. Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
TATEL, Circuit Judge.
A landmark reform to the nation’s campaign finance laws, the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002, Pub.L. No. 107-155, 116 Stat. 81, took aim at two perceived demons of federal electoral contests: “soft money,” i.e., use of unregulated political party activities to influence federal elections, and “sham issue ads,” i.e., ostensibly issue-related advocacy functioning in practice as unregulated campaign advertising. These two tactics, given broad scope by…
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