In his op-ed What's Wrong With 'Hillary: the Movie'?, former Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky shreds the FEC's absurd rules, and calls on the Supreme Court to overturn two prior egregious decisions sanctioning federal censorship of political speech. Since the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) passed in 1972 it has grown like Topsy. FECA now comprises 244 pages of statute, 568 pages of regulations enacted pursuant to the law, with 1,278 pages of explanations & justifications, supplemented by nearly 1,800 advisory opinions. Everything is perfectly clear, right?
Well, not quite: Rules differ for 70 different types of entities, and there are no less than 33 forms of political speech, each with its own rules. General Electric is unregulated, because it owns a media company (NBC). General Motors is not so lucky.
Read the 2-pager in full. And stay tuned for September 9, when, as a New York Times front-pager reports, the Supreme Court, in a special pre-October session, hears an appeal seeking to overturn the rules. Supreme Sonia will sit for the first time as an Associate Justice, readying her Empathy Enveloper. More on that come September.
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