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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING! #SCOTUS delivers a welcome win for #campaignfinance transparency this morning as it denies cert in Doe v. FEC.

Key players in a straw-donor scheme involving @ACUConservative had sued @FEC to keep their names forever secret.

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@ACUConservative @FEC I wish I could have convinced my colleagues to follow the dark-money trail to the end, but at least with respect to the Doe plaintiffs, the @FEC was *unanimous* that these names belonged on the public record.

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@ACUConservative @FEC As soon the trial court lifts its stays, I will un-redact my Dec. 2017 statement and make sure all FEC documents are quickly released without redactions.

Details here:

eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/170…

transition.fec.gov/law/litigation…

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🚨🚨🚨Thread!

Buckle up.

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It’s been claimed that voting by mail leads to massive corruption and fraud. But what are the facts?
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U.S. citizens will vote by mail this year in record numbers. In the face of a global health emergency, election officials across the country from both parties are working heroically to ensure that voting by mail is accurate, accessible, safe & secure.
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There's simply no basis for the conspiracy theory that voting by mail causes fraud. None.

@CNN & @washingtonpost fact-checks show this. But many others have examined the issue and arrived at the same conclusion. Still others have provided some key context. Take a look!
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1/ 🚨BREAKING! The district court has lifted its order restraining the @FEC from publishing the names of key players in a $1.7 million straw-donor scheme. Here's my statement with all the details:
@FEC 2/ Further information on the case here:

transition.fec.gov/law/litigation…

My original, redacted, statement:

eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/170…
@FEC PDF of today’s statement:

eqs.fec.gov/eqsdocsMUR/692…
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Today’s the 8th birthday of #SCOTUS’s affirmance of Bluman v. @FEC!

This critically important case held that the U.S. has a “compelling interest” in limiting the political activities of foreigners, thus protecting our political system from foreign political influence.

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The court concluded that Canadian lawyer Benjamin Bluman’s proposed activity was illegal: not just his three proposed $100 campaign contributions, but also merely paying to copy a flyer supporting President Obama’s re-election to hand out in Central Park.

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Then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote the underlying opinion:“It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self-government.”/3
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