Statement by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer: Federal District Court Judge Inappropriately Attempts to Overrule Supreme Court Decision
A federal district court judge in Alexandria, Virginia issued an opinion yesterday ruling that the ban on corporate contributions to federal candidates enacted in 1907 is unconstitutional. The ruling was issued in United States v. William Danielczyk, Jr, et al. Less than a decade ago, the Supreme Court in Federal Election Commission v. Beaumont (2003) explicitly upheld the […]