The law says that if a contributor to a PAC doesn't specify that their contribution is to support a particular candidate, their identity doesn't have to be revealed to the government. recent case involving Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS organization questioned how far the law and regulations should go to keeping Americans unaware of who is funding campaigns. The District of Columbia (DC) Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the names have to be revealed in many more cases than had been previously thought. The 3-judge panel were appointed by George H W Bush and Barack Obama. Apparently this displeased our conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. He, and he alone, decided to stay the lower court actions, so that (at least temporarily) the identities will NOT be revealed.
A lot is happening in the world of politics and government, but this is the only story about this Court decision which I have seen.
One detail which is important: we don't know how temporary this stay may be. Will it extend through the mid-term elections?
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