Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias has lost his bid to thwart a Kansas law banning foreign actors from funneling money into state-level ballot initiatives.
In May, the Elias Law Group, the eponymous law firm of the election attorney, jointly filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban, enacted as H.B. 2106, on behalf of the foreign-funded Kansans for Constitutional Freedom.
This week, an Obama-appointed judge issued a scathing ruling rejecting the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction “premised on an unconstitutional overbreadth theory.”
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H.B. 2106, which amends the state’s Campaign Finance Act, prohibits donations from foreign nationals in support or defeat of proposed amendments to the Kansas constitution.
Federal law already forbids foreign interests from contributing to individual candidates and super PACs, but a backdoor exists regarding
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