On September 8, in response to a “Request for Information,” the James Madison Center for Free Speech (“JMCFS”) submitted comments to the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee (“Committee”) in support of bright-line IRS standards for tax-exempt organizations in order to rein in the threat to free sp...
Today, the Madison Center asked the Federal Election Commission to strengthen FEC reporting rules to prevent political committees from hiding payments for opposition research and narrative creation as payments for legal work by their lawyers. For example, the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”)...
The comments submitted by JMCFS in response to the FEC Notifcation of Availability of a Petition for Rulemaking Regarding Subvendor reporting is available at the link below: VIEW COMMENTS HERE
PRESS RELEASE February 23, 2021 Contact: James Bopp, Jr., General Counsel Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] Today, the James Madison Center for Free Speech (“JMCFS”), filed a friend of the court brief in two U.S. Supreme Court cases considering California's requirement t...
On February 7, 2020, James Bopp, Jr., General Counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech (“JMCFS”), will testify at the Internal Revenue Service's public hearing on its proposed regulation eliminating the requirement that § 501(c)(4) advocacy groups provide the names and addresses of co...
PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, December 10, 2019 Contact: James Bopp, Jr., General Counsel Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] James Madison Center for Free Speech Urges the IRS to Stop Gathering the Personal Information of Donors to 501(c)(4)s Yesterday, the James Madison Center ...
PRESS RELEASE Thursday September 20, 2018 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] Issue-Advocacy Group Asks Supreme Court to Review Sweeping Montana Political-Committee Law Today, Montanans for Community Development (“MCD”) asked the U.S. Supreme Cou...
PRESS RELEASE Friday, July 20, 2018 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] Amicus Brief Advocating Constitutional Definition of Quid Pro Quo Corruption Filed In United States Supreme Court Today, the James Madison Center for Free Speech filed an am...
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, July 6, 2016 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812/232-2434; Fax 812/235-3685; [email protected] Judicial Candidate Petitions High Court For Right to Campaign Last week, Randolph Wolfson asked the United States Supreme Court to review Arizona's judicial can...
PRESS RELEASE Monday, June 27, 2016 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] U.S. Supreme Court Holds Virginia Corruption Definition Unconstitutional Today, the United States Supreme Court vacated a jury conviction against former Virginia Governor Ro...
PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] Montana Candidate Contribution Limits Ruled Unconstitutional Yesterday, a federal district court ruled that Montana candidate contribution limits were unconsti...
PRESS RELEASE Monday, March 7, 2016 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812-232-2434; Fax 812-235-3685; [email protected] Amicus Brief Seeking Constitutional Definition of Quid Pro Quo Corruption Filed In United States Supreme Court Today, the James Madison Center for Free Speech filed an amicus...
Press Release August 17, 2015 Contact: James Bopp, Jr.Phone 812/232-2434; Cell 812/243-0825; Fax 812/235-3685; [email protected] Hawaii's Law Making Multimillion Dollar Electrical Construction Company a PAC is Appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court Hawaii law – rather than requiring constitutional, si...
Today, the James Madison Center for Free Speech filed an amicus brief with the Wisconsin Supreme Court advising the Court that a judge is not constitutionally required to remove herself from a case simply because a party made independent expenditures years ago supporting their candidacy. The brie...
Today, six judicial candidates joined the James Madison Center for Free Speech in filing an amicus brief asking the United States Supreme Court to strike down Florida's personal solicitation ban, citing the First Amendment's political speech protections as grounds. Last month, the United States S...
Last Friday, a bipartisan coalition of candidates, business people, and others asked a federal court to reverse its 2009 decision upholding New York City's campaign finance laws which unfairly reduced the contribution limits for the business community to just one-tenth of what everyone else is al...
Vermont's campaign-finance law, that requires a lobby group to be a PAC if it engages in over $1,000 in issue advocacy and that imposed contribution limits on Vermont “superpacs,” was appealed Monday to the U.S. Supreme Court. The challenge is brought by Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. (“VR...
Today, Montanans for Community Development (“MCD”) asked a Montana federal court to prohibit the Commissioner of Political Practices and other state officials from enforcing unclear campaign finance laws and prevent those officials from investigating violations until constitutionally adequate pro...
On June 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held unconstitutional California's requirement that ballot initiative petition forms identify the official initiative proponents. This follows court opinions allowing anonymity at the point of petition circulation. For example, a prior c...
On Friday, the Ninth Circuit federal appellate court ruled that Arizona judicial canons that restrict the ability of judicial candidates to engage in ordinary political activities as part of their campaigns are unconstitutional. The plaintiff in the case, Randolph Wolfson, is a resident of Golden...
Today the Republican National Committee filed its opening brief in McCutcheon v. FEC in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, brought by the Republican National Committee and Shaun McCutcheon, challenges the federal biennial, individual aggregate limits on contributions to candidates and national pol...
Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted full review of McCutcheon v. FEC. The case, brought by Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee, challenges the biennial individual aggregate limits on contributions to candidates and national political party committees (such as RNC). Under these...
PRESS RELEASE March 27, 2012 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Cell Phone 812/243-0825; Phone 812/232-2434; Fax 812/235-3685; [email protected] Today three corporations asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Montana Supreme Court's holding that corporations in Montana may be banned from making ind...
PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Contact: James Bopp, Jr. Phone 812/232-2434; Fax 812/235-3685; [email protected] In 2007, New York City created a blacklist. It singled out nearly 12,000 of its most prominent citizens and said that they were the most likely to try to bribe politicians with ...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 A group of plaintiffs has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of New Mexico's new campaign finance laws. The lawsuit alleges that the new limits on contributions to political parties and from political parties to their candidates, as well as the new limits...
