‘Candidates’ Driving Cash-Filled Trucks Through Campaign-Finance Loopholes
Via NPR
If Congress is all about sausage-making, Washington’s political-money industry has its own specialty: slicing the particular sausage that is campaign finance law, thinner and thinner.
The meat of the law is in its definitions. What is a “contribution”? An “expenditure”? What does “coordinate” really mean? “Public communication”? How about “candidate”?
The campaign-finance law, its amendments, regulations and related court decisions define these terms and dozens of others. Nowadays, the art of campaign-finance lawyering lies in determining what a definition fails to say — and then driving a cash-filled truck through the loophole.
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