appearance of corruption, it upheld FECA’s disclosure requirements, and it did nothing to disturb the Court’s prior findings that limits on corporate and union contributions, as opposed to expenditures, appropriately further that interest. See id. at 356–57; see also Cort v. Ash, 422 U.S. 66 (1975); First Nat’l Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765, 787–88 n.26 (1978) (finding limits on contributions address problem of corruption of elected representatives through creation of political debts) (dictum). Section 30118 prohibits the following: • Contributions (which include coordinated expenditures) by corporations and labor organizations in connection with any federal election, unless made to a Super PAC (a political committee engaging only in independent expenditures). 53 • Contributions and expenditures by a national bank or a federally chartered corporation in connection with any election – federal, state, or local. 54 • Consent to a prohibited contribution or expenditure by any officer of a corporation, labor organization, or national bank; and • Knowing acceptance of a prohibited contribution by any candidate, political committee, or other person . 53 The ban on corporate and union contributions to independent expenditure-only political committees was invalidated by the D.C. Circuit in SpeechNow.org v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 599 F.3d 686 (D.C. Cir. 2010). This statute is one of two FECA prohibitions that extend to non-federal elections. The other is 52 U.S.C. § 30121, which prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions to non-federal as well as federal elections. 54 134

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