Apr 28, 2009 -- Reformers File in Challenge to Election Ad Disclosure Laws

Today, the Campaign Legal Center, with Democracy 21, filed an amici brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Koerber and Committee for Truth in Politics (CTP) v. FEC. The Koerber case, brought by attorney Jim Bopp, seeks to overturn existing disclosure requirements for election advertisements and to undermine the FEC's enforcement of the regulations governing political committees.

"This challenge is a broad overreach by Mr. Bopp that asks the court to ignore Supreme Court precedent and allow groups to spend millions of dollars anonymously on electioneering communications," said Tara Malloy, Campaign Legal Center Associate Legal Counsel. "It is an attempt not only to undermine the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 but also to impede the FEC's efforts to ensure that political committees abide by the requirements of the federal campaign finance laws."

Over the last year, similar challenges brought by Mr. Bopp and others have been rejected by federal courts in Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Washington, DC.

To read the amici brief filed by the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, click here.