State Won't Enforce Donor Limit After Supreme Court Ruling

Maryland elections officials say they will no longer enforce a $10,000 limit on donors' contributions to state candidates during a four-year election cycle, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

A State Board of Elections memo distributed Friday states that while a person's contributions are unlimited, they can't exceed $4,000 to any one candidate.

The memo says the overall limit on donors' contributions during a four-year cycle is no longer enforceable after the court's decision last week in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. The court ruled that such limits violate constitutional protections of free speech.
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