National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Comm’n · ¶64

With respect to disclosure laws: FECA requires that political parties and candidates publicly disclose both the contributions they receive and their spending on campaign activities, including on coordinated expenditures. §30104(b). As the Court emphasized in McCutcheon, disclosure has become a much stronger anti-circumvention tool over time because “modern technology” provides a “particularly effective means of arming the voting public with information.” Id., at 224. “Today, given the Internet, disclosure offers much more robust protections against corruption” than it once did. Ibid. “Because massive quantities of information can be accessed at the click of a mouse, disclosure is effective to a degree not possible” when the Court decided earlier cases—including Colorado II. 572 U. S., at 224. Indeed, McCutcheon’s observations on that point are even more true today than they were in 2014…

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