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05 June 2020
Bradley Smith, Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Free Speech and a former FEC Chairman, discusses the confirmation of a new FEC Commissioner and what it means for the Commission, why supporting the right to peaceful protest is important even during a pandemic, and the final donor privacy regulation recently released by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service.
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