Dinner Table Action et al. v. Schneider et al. (Maine Super PAC Contributions)

On October 29, 2025, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed an amicus brief to defend Maine’s 2024 law limiting contributions to super PACs. As CLC’s brief explains, experience in the 15 years since the D.C. Circuit first blessed these committees and their ability to accept unlimited contributions — on the premise that a super PAC’s supposed independence from candidates forecloses any risk of corruption — proves instead that large financial contributions to super PACs can and do facilitate actual quid pro quo corruption, as well as foster its appearance. Given this record, the brief argues that super PAC contributions can constitutionally be limited to prevent corruption and preserve the public’s faith in democratic self-government.