February 1, 2012 7:35 PM
So Who Are the Top Legal Contributors to America’s Super PACs?
Posted by Brian Baxter
On Tuesday, The New York Times tracked the top donors to the so-called super political action committees, or super PACs, that came to life in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision two years ago and are making their presence felt in this year’s presidential campaign.
Unlike individual donors, who are capped at contributing $2,500 per political candidate during an election, super PAC contributors—individuals, corporations, and labor unions, for instance—can give unlimited sums in support of, or in opposition to, any number of candidates.
The rise of the super PACs during the current election cycle hasn’t been without controversy. Politico reported this week that some campaigns aren’t happy with the increased power of the nominally independent entities, and one longtime conservative lawyer who had a hand in the Citizens United case, James Bopp, Jr., told Talking Points Memo this week that he hoped Congress would pass legislation curtailing their activities.
And with three active campaign finance suits—one of them already at the Supreme Court—creating the possibility of further change in the post-Citizens United
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