D.C. Judge Voids FEC Rule Limiting Donor Disclosures

Via LegalTimes

As challenges to election disclosure rules proliferate around the country, campaign finance reform advocates scored a significant victory Tuesday as a Washington federal court struck down a Federal Elections Commission rule limiting donor disclosures for “electioneering communications.”

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the rule, which narrowed disclosure requirements for corporations and labor unions that fund electioneering communications, was “arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to law” and that the regulation was “an unreasonable interpretation of the BCRA (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act).”