{"id":2553,"date":"2025-03-21T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-special-issue\/constitutional-validity-of-public-donor-disclosure-requirements-for-dark-money-organizations-with-a-focus-on-501c4s\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:11:26","slug":"constitutional-validity-of-public-donor-disclosure-requirements-for-dark-money-organizations-with-a-focus-on-501c4s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/in-print-2\/volume-22-special-issue\/constitutional-validity-of-public-donor-disclosure-requirements-for-dark-money-organizations-with-a-focus-on-501c4s\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Validity of Public Donor Disclosure Requirements for Dark Money Organizations with a Focus on 501(C)(4)s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In today\u2019s political environment, running a winning campaign requires an exorbitant amount of money. Nearly $9 billion was spent in the 2022 congressional elections alone.<span class=\"s1\">1 <\/span>There is no shortage of private donors readily available to fill the coffers.<span class=\"s1\">2 <\/span>In the United States, private contributions to political campaigns are made to get sympathetic candidates elected, who, once elected, will theoretically accommodate their financial supporters.<span class=\"s1\">3<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the U.S., the outright purchase of favors is minimal, but there is an abundance of concern about undue influence.<span class=\"s1\">4 <\/span>Undue influence can lead to policy capture over public decision-making.<span class=\"s1\">5 <\/span>For example, one prominent Republican donor outraged at Congress\u2019s lack of inaction told a fundraiser, <span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>[t]he GOP leaders should know, no movement on remaining agenda: tax reform, infrastructure, deregulation, etc. means no funding from supporters like me.<span class=\"s2\">\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\">6 <\/span>Money in politics <span class=\"s2\">\u201c<\/span>is not bad per se.<span class=\"s2\">\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s1\">7 <\/span>However, when sources of campaign funding lack transparency, there can be serious implications for the integrity of a country\u2019s political system.<span class=\"s1\">8<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/GT-GLPP240054.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s political environment, running a winning campaign requires an exorbitant amount of money. Nearly $9 billion was spent in the 2022 congressional elections alone.1 There is no shortage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10127,"featured_media":0,"parent":2421,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-2553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2553\/revisions\/2559"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/public-policy-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}