...608 (e)(l) prevents only some large expenditures. So long as persons and groups eschew expenditures that in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, they are free to spend as much as they want to promote the candidate and his views. The exacting interpretation...

...if the major purpose of those efforts is to nominate or elect candidates, and only if they involve communications that in express terms "advocate the...election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate." 424 US 80. Other independent expenditures, those which do not explicitly advocate election or defeat...

...608 (e)(l) prevents only some large expenditures. So long as persons and groups eschew expenditures that in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, they are free to spend as much as they want to promote the candidate and his views. The exacting interpretation...

...unless the major purpose of those efforts is to nominate or elect candidates, and unless they involve communications that in express terms "advocate the...election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate." 424 US 80. Other independent expenditures, those which do not explicitly advocate election or defeat...

...if the major purpose of those efforts is to nominate or elect candidates, and only if they involve communications that, in express terms, advocate the...election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate. Through this narrow construction, the Court made it clear that it would not tolerate a contributor...

...if the major purpose of those efforts is to nominate or elect candidates, and only if they involve communications that, in express terms, advocate the...election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate. Through this narrow construction, the Court made it clear that it would not tolerate a contributor...

...language would not serve as an effective "loophole-closing" provision (ie, by avoiding expenditures that in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, persons and groups would be free to spend as much as they want to promote a candidate and his views)...

...language would not serve as an effective "loophole-closing" provision (ie, by avoiding expenditures that in express terms advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, persons and groups would be free to spend as much as they want to promote a candidate and his views)...

...if the major purpose of those efforts is to nominate or elect candidates, and only if they involve communications that in express terms "advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate."40 Other independent expenditures, those which do not explicitly advocate election or defeat...

...statute at issue there (in order to avoid constitutional difficulties) "to apply only to expenditures for communications that in express terms advocate the...election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate for a public office." lit. at 44 (emphasis added). The Court added that "[t]his construction would restrict...