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Events • June 18, 2014 

# *McCutcheon v. FEC*: Two Books on the Supreme Court’s Latest Campaign Finance Case 

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On April 2, the Supreme Court issued its latest blockbuster ruling on campaign finance, *McCutcheon v. FEC*, striking down the "aggregate" contribution limits on how much money any one person can contribute to election campaigns (leaving untouched the "base" limits on donations to individual candidates or party committees). Within days of the decision, while pundits and activists were still battling in the media, two e-books were published about the case. One was by Shaun McCutcheon himself, an Alabama engineer who has quickly gone from political neophyte to Supreme Court plaintiff, thus providing a rare first-person layman's account of high-stakes litigation. The other was by two law professors specializing in the First Amendment, Ronald Collins and David Skover, who dissect the Court's ruling and put it in the broader context of campaign finance regulation. Please join us to hear about *McCutcheon* and its implications for our political system from authors with unique perspectives on the subject. 

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##### [Ilya Shapiro](/people/ilya-shapiro)

Former Vice President and Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute