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Swordsmyth
09-11-2018, 01:15 AM
A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling in favor of allowing donations between Missouri political action committees, arguing that a state ban on the practice unconstitutionally violates the groups' First Amendment rights.
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote in the ruling that "like individuals, PACs enjoy the right to freedom of speech and association."
"Restricting the recipients to whom a PAC can donate therefore limits the donor-PAC's speech and associational rights under the First Amendment," they concluded.

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