Emily Echols (born December 25, 1988), as a 13 year old, was a lead plaintiff witness in the United States Supreme Court case McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, attracting nationwide attention.
The case takes its name from Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and the Federal Election Commission, the federal agency that oversees U.S. campaign finance laws.
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He has run four times for the Congressional seat representing New York's 26th congressional district, in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2011; all bids have been unsuccessful.
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For the 2004 and 2006 candidacies, he was the Democratic nominee and faced no primary challengers in his unsuccessful bids against incumbent Republican Tom Reynolds; in the 2008 race, he finished in third place in a three-way Democratic primary to Alice Kryzan.
Frieman's defense states that the wording of the restrictive highway signage refers specifically to "persons"; therefore, case law is applicable, going back to U.S. legal decisions from the 19th century, including Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad and to the more widely known 2010 "corporate personhood" case titled Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
The nonpartisan group was created in response to the Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Since the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations, entities associated and with links to The Reynolds and Reynolds Company have been some of the top donors, giving over $2 million to Super PACs supporting Republican candidates.
Uihlein has been a Republican donor for decades, and increased his political giving after Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
The DISCLOSE Act, proposed by Democrats in a response to the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (which held that corporations and labor unions have a constitutional right to spend unlimited sums of money on advocacy ads) would have required the heads of non-campaign organizations funding a political advertisement on-camera (such as "super PACs" or corporations) to follow a "stand by your ad" requirement.