SCOTUS, Congress and On-going Efforts to Regulate Political Spending and Activities
06 June 2014
Erin Murphy, partner at Bancroft PLLC, discusses her successful legal argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in McCutcheon v. FEC, in which the Court held the federal aggregate limits on campaign contributions unconstitutional, and her work on Bond v. United States, a case recently decided by the Court involving a poisoned mailbox.
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