Federal Election Commission, Appellee
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., U.S. Solicitor General
The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 was the Federal Government’s first modern effort to create a system governing the financing of political campaigns. In addition to regulations limiting the amount candidates can spend and how much donors can contribute to individual candidates, it set caps on the total amount donors can give to all candidates and non-candidate committees combined. In 2002, Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), which set out that an individual may contribute a total of $48,600 to all Federal candidates and a total of $74,600 to all non-candidate political committees ― i.e., national party…
