Brian Galle and Donald Tobin have posted their comments on the IRS Rulemaking to SSRN.  Here is the abstract: The Notice is a good first step. It creates bright-line standards that are easy to apply and that will eliminate much… Continue reading

Inside Political Law reports.

Links to come.

A group of prominent First Amendment advocates (Floyd Abrams, Arthur Eisenberg, Joel Gora Michael Meyers, Nadine Strossen, Harvey Silverglate, and  Bill Van Alstyne) submitted this comment to the IRS on their proposed rulemaking.

How Far Can the IRS Go in Regulating Political Activity by Nonprofits? and Worse Than it Looks? How to Depict Big Money in Politics.

The Boston Globe reports.

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CPI reports.

Release: MapLight has produced a series of reports and visualizations on how the growth of “dark money” has impacted the nature of spending in elections. Our first report, “Social Welfare” Groups Dominate Dark Money Spending on Congressional Elections,… Continue reading

Important response from the Alliance for Justice on 501(c)(4) proposed rules.

Bloomberg reports.

NYT editorial.

WaPo reports.

NYT reports.