Subject: Re: [EL] message from Joel Gora v. Buckley and Disclosure
From: Jon Roland
Date: 5/9/2011, 12:18 PM
To: Paul Lehto
CC: Election Law <election-law@mailman.lls.edu>
Reply-to:
"jon.roland@constitution.org"

Conspiracy at the federal level is already lawful in that there is no power delegated to Congress to make any kind of conspiracy a crime, except perhaps on the territory of federal enclaves under U.S. Const. Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 17. This was debated and decided in 1808 in the Tenth Congress. The power is reserved to the states on state territory. Also see Jurisdiction over Federal Areas within the States .


On 05/09/2011 01:52 PM, Paul Lehto wrote: 
"Associational privacy" when it is illegal is an important part of the
essence of conspiracy in the legal sense.  When "associational
privacy" is constitutionalized and campaign finance laws struck down,
it legalizes conspiracies, and also enshrines them in the halo of
Constitutional protected activity.



-- Jon

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