11 C.F.R. §110.20 - Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510)
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4 cases
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Oneamerica Votes v. State, 83836-9-I
...with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee. 11 C.F.R. § 110.20(i) (emphasis added). In 2011, several foreign nationals living and working in the United States on temporary work visas challenged the constitutiona......
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Oneamerica Votes v. State, 83836-9-I
...with elections for any Federal, State, or local office or decisions concerning the administration of a political committee. 11 C.F.R. § 110.20(i) (emphasis added). In 2011, several foreign nationals living and working in the United States on temporary work visas challenged the constitutiona......
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Bluman v. Fed. Election Comm'n, Civil Action No. 10–1766 (RMU).
...the plaintiffs contend, are prohibited by § 303 of the BCRA, codified at 2 U.S.C. § 441e(a)(1), and its implementing regulation, 11 C.F.R. § 110.20. Id. ¶¶ 2–3. Believing that this prohibition violates the First Amendment, the plaintiffs have commenced this action against the FEC, seeking a......
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Bluman v. Fed. Election Comm'n, Civil Action No.: 10-1766 (RMU)
...the plaintiffs contend, are prohibited by § 303 of the BCRA, codified at 2 U.S.C. § 441e(a)(1), and its implementing regulation, 11 C.F.R § 110.20. Id. ¶¶ 2-3. Believing that this prohibition violates the First Amendment, the plaintiffs have commenced this action against thePage 3 FEC, seek......
4 firm's commentaries
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The FEC Revisits the Ban on Foreign Nationals’ Financing of American Elections
...nationals cannot participate in a U.S. citizen’s decision-making process about election-related activities, or in PAC decision-making. 11 CFR 110.20(i). Who is a foreign national? The statute excludes U.S. citizens and individuals who are lawful permanent resident aliens (“green card” holde......
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Federal Election Commission Obtains $940,000 in Fines for Foreign Involvement in a U.S. Corporate Contribution to a Super PAC Supporting a 2016 Presidential Candidate
...with respect to making contributions, donations or spending money in connection with a federal, state, or local election. See 11 CFR § 110.20(i). As a result of Citizens United and related cases, U.S. companies are permitted to contribute to “Super” PACs, entities that can accept unlimited ......
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Practical Impact And Longer Term Consequences Of Citizens United v. FEC
...to FEC restrictions on spending non-U.S. funds in U.S. elections, or allowing foreign nationals a role in the decision-making process. 11 C.F.R. § 110.20. However, the importance the majority places on the First Amendment's protection of "speech" regardless of the identity of the "speakers"......
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Biden-Harris Transition & Inaugural Committee Raise Specific Compliance Issues
...further explain that “a foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make a donation to an inaugural committee.” See 11 C.F.R. § 110.20(j). Although the regulation does not expressly prohibit pass-through or so-called straw-person donations, the Department of Justice has prosecuted s......
4 books & journal articles
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First Amendment and 'foreign-controlled' U.S. corporations: why Congress ought to affirm domestic subsidiaries' corporate political-speech rights.
...to include a corporation that is "organized under the laws of or having its principal place of business in a foreign country"); see also 11 C.F.R. 110.20 (2011) (defining foreign national to include a "foreign principal, as defined in 22 U.S.C. 611(b)," and requiring that "[n]o person shall......
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Citizens United: Strengthening the First Amendment in American Elections
...in American Politics?, ABC NEWS (Jan. 24, 2010), http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/foreign-money-american-politics/story?id=9646 051. 31211 C.F.R. § 110.20(i) (2010). 313Foreign Nationals, FED. ELECTION COMM‘N (July 2003), http://www.fec.gov/pages/ brochures/foreign.shtml. Page 758 758 CAPITAL ......
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Stealth Authoritarianism
...to create an original work of art “in connection with fundraising for a Senate campaign.” Foreign Nationals , supra note 196. 199. 11 C.F.R. § 110.20(h)(2)(i) (2014). 200. See id. § 110.20(h). 201. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, LAWS OF ATTRITION: CRACKDOWN ON RUSSIA’S CIVIL SOCIETY AFTER PUTIN’S RETU......
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An Unqualified Right to Self-Defense: Alienage Restrictions and the Second Amendment
...in which no alien in any state had the right to cast a vote for a candidate for any office—national, state, or local.”); see also 11 C.F.R. § 110.20(c) (2014) (prohibiting foreign nationals from making contributions to federal, state, and local campaigns). 47 See supra notes 36–42 and accom......
2 provisions
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Act 117, AB 387 – Relating to: campaign finance
...fund".(4) No person may make or accept a contribution, make a disbursement, make an expenditure, or incur an obligation in violation of 11 CFR 110.20 and 52 USC 30121.SUBCHAPTER XIIIADMINISTRATION11.1301 Defense fund authorized. (1) Any candidate or public official who is being investigated......
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Chapter 365, AB 82 – Makes various changes relating to elections
...and (2) any person from knowingly soliciting, accepting or receiving any campaign contribution from a foreign national. (2 U.S.C. 441e; 11 C.F.R. 110.20)Section 40.5 of this bill provides a similar prohibition in state law against a foreign national making a contribution to certain persons ......