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  1. Supreme Court to review limits on campaign contributions

    By Bill Allison Feb 19, 2013 5:21 p.m.

    A case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear next fall challenges campaign spending limits that have been in place since the Watergate scandal that toppled President Richard Nixon.

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  2. Crusading lawyer takes aim at contribution limits

    By Keenan Steiner Mar 14, 2012 5:04 p.m.

    The attorney who has been pushing the FEC to ease a host of campaign finance rules is at it again.

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  3. FEC deadlocks on supersizing corporate and union PACs

    By Keenan Steiner Mar 1, 2012 4:08 p.m.

    A lawyer who has already successfully fought to loosen campaign finance regulations says he'll probably go back to court to continue his crusade after the Federal Election Commission today deadlocked over allowing corporations, unions and other organizations with political action committees to create super PACs within them. 

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  4. New Super PAC seeks expansion of role for corporate, connected PACs

    By Bill Allison Jan 10, 2012 6:17 p.m.

    Dan Backer, the attorney behind the hybrid super PAC rule that allows political action committees contributing to members of Congress and other candidates to also accept unlimited contributions to make independent expenditures, is trying to extend the favor to political action committees tied to corporate entities.

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