Timeline for To what degree is foreign financial support allowed in US politics?
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| Apr 21, 2021 at 3:53 | history | edited | divibisan |
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| Apr 26, 2019 at 1:02 | comment | added | grovkin | Ok, I think I just convinced myself that you convinced me. These are orthogonal issues and the question is not a duplicate. But because they are both on the same topic, don't be surprised if someone else comes along and tries to connect them as duplicates. | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 1:00 | comment | added | grovkin | The issue of using SuperPAC (which advocates for a candidate but doesn't coordinate with a candidate) to hide that the donor is an international corporation is that it is still illegal for a foreign corporation to influence a campaign. A US subdivision of a corp can donate to such a superPAC, but only if the US division doesn't coordinate it with the the foreign corp HQ. The issue of donation to person vs superpac is independent from the issue whether it is is a foreign entity paying a US entity to do electioneering. The Q of when it is legal to make such foreign payments is covered in my Q. | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 0:52 | comment | added | grovkin | Candidates have PACs. SuperPACs cannot coordinate their activities with candidate campaigns directly, but they can accept unlimited donations. But if you want to see what is claimed to have been nefarious about those activities, it's been discussed in some of the comments (to my question and its answers). As for whether it was illegal, the illegal actions fall into 2 categories. (1) illegal electioneering (covered by the FEC page) (2) actions which would have been illegal even if they were not related to elections (e.g., identity theft). | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 0:07 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | I don't see them as the same question. This one is specifically asking for "If this was a SuperPAC or the like and Putin gave by proxy of a corporation, would this even be against the law?" | |
| Apr 26, 2019 at 0:04 | comment | added | JJJ♦ | @grovkin in that case it might help if you rephrase your own question first, then it should be fine to use it as a canonical question for closing dupes. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 23:56 | comment | added | grovkin | @JJJ the title of my question is more colloquially stated. But the cases considered in the question cover this question as well. I even ended up quoting from the same FEC page, when answering my own question. Both questions seem to have the same general answer: anyone can do topic advocacy, agents must register under FARA if they lobby and only citizens can support political candidate advocacy. I think there are a few other questions floating around whose answer is really on the same FEC page. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 23:48 | comment | added | JJJ♦ | @grovkin I'm not convinced that it is. Your question seems more limited in scope asking about contributions aimed at trolling, whereas this one is broader including any time of foreign financial support. | |
| Apr 25, 2019 at 23:40 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 25, 2019 at 23:23 | comment | added | grovkin | Possible duplicate of Is it illegal for other nations to pay US citizens to troll on social media? | |
| May 18, 2017 at 22:45 | history | edited | Evan Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 18, 2017 at 16:20 | history | edited | Evan Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 18, 2017 at 16:02 | answer | added | user1530 | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 18, 2017 at 15:54 | history | asked | Evan Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |