The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that most foreign nationals can't donate in state and local election campaigns
A federal appeals court has rejected a legal challenge to Congress’ ban on most foreign nationals donating to state and local election campaigns.Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ban Thursday, saying that a “summary” Supreme Court ruling in 2012 upholding the foreign-donation ban left lower-court judges obliged to turn down all First Amendment challenges to the statute.However, that high-court decision — issued without briefing or argument — dealt with a lawsuit focused on federal elections.
“As donations and contributions have grown more important to the campaign process, so too has concern over foreign influence in American elections,” wrote Smith, an appointee of President George W. Bush.Sign Up “A prohibition on campaign donations and contributions by foreign nationals is necessary and proper to the exercise of the immigration and foreign relations powers. … Accordingly, Congress was within its power when it acted to protect the country’s political processes after recognizing the susceptibility of the elections process to foreign interference,” added Milan injoined by Judges Paul Watford and Andrew Hurwitz, both appointees of President Barack Obama.
A jury convicted both men in the hidden-donation scheme while others pleaded guilty. Most of the work was for candidates in the 2012 San Diego mayoral election, Bonnie Dumanis and former Rep. Bob Filner.
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