Sentence examples for the aggregate campaign from inspiring English sources
on Tuesday sharply criticized this week's Supreme Court's decision striking down the aggregate campaign contribution limits.
But Lessig said he is optimistic that the justices will look at the McCutcheon case and the original definition of corruption used by the framers and form a strong majority to uphold the aggregate campaign contribution limits.
The total amount of money spent at the federal level in the 2012 election by the top fossil fuel industry donors who would benefit the most from the removal of aggregate campaign finance limits was $11,504,213.
Efforts to make it easier for candidates and party committees to coordinate are increasingly viable since the Supreme Court eliminated aggregate campaign contribution limits in its April 2014 ruling in McCutcheon v. FEC.
That the Supreme Court even decided to hear the case over whether aggregate campaign contributions should be limited to "only" $123,600 indicates that the Roberts Court is poised to exacerbate the problem of money in politics.
WASHINGTON -- Just one month after the Supreme Court struck down aggregate campaign contribution limits, Republican Party officials are set to join what may be the next big court challenge in the ongoing push to unravel campaign finance laws.
At the same time, estimates of aggregate campaign and lobbying spending are well below than 1 percent of total government spending.
In discussing the Supreme Court arguments over limits on aggregate campaign contributions, you quote Justice Antonin Scalia as saying sarcastically that "a law that only prohibits the speech of 2 percent of the country is O.K".
The 5-4 ruling in McCutcheon struck down aggregate campaign contribution limits preventing donors from giving more than $123,200 in total to federal political candidates, parties and PACs in the current election cycle.
The justices will decide in McCutcheon whether the aggregate federal campaign contribution limits -- $123,200 for a single donor in the 2014 election cycle -- place an unconstitutional burden on a donor's rights to free speech and association.
