Dan Backer

Counsel to more than 100 campaigns & candidates, PACs, and political organizations, including the largest grassroots-driven SuperPACs of the past decade, and over $100 Million in pro-Republican political spending. Filed more than two dozen FEC Advisory Opinion Requests and FEC complaints on behalf of clients, numerous lawsuits against the FEC, and regularly represents political law clients before the FEC.

• McCutcheon v FEC, US Supreme Court 2014, struck Aggregate limits. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/mccutcheon-et-al-v-fec/
• Carey v FEC, US District Court for DC 2010, created the Hybrid PAC. https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/carey-v-fec/

• Knight First Amendment Institute et. al. v Donald J Trump, 2nd Circuit, 2018, blocking Twitter trolls. “The district court erred by adjudicating the Institute’s claims because the Institute lacked standing to complain of the President’s decision to block the individual, non-institutional plaintiffs (hereafter, “Blocked Users”) from Twitter.”
• J.G.G. et. al. v Donald J. Trump, USDC for DC, 2025, opposing contempt & sanctions. “This Court should not hold any governmental defendants in contempt because the order prohibited Defendants only from removing any plaintiff class members from the country pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. It did not go further by directing the Government to return illegal aliens who allegedly belong to the designated foreign terrorist group Tren de Aragua and had already been removed from U.S. territory, including to a foreign country. Defendants may not be held in contempt for acting inconsistently with statements this Court made during its hearing that it failed to memorialize in its written Temporary Restraining Order pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(1)(A)-(C).”
• Donald Trump v United States, SCOTUS 2024, Presidential Immunity. “President Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution for the acts set forth in the indictment because they involved the exercise of executive discretion with regard to the exercise of core executive powers...”

• MUR 7449 – Hillary Clinton and the DNC, for the illegal funding of the Steele Dossier, resulting in a 6-figure fine.
• MUR 7587 – Bernie Sanders, for illegal hiring of illegal aliens, resulting in a 5-figure fine.
• 20 FEC Advisory Opinion Requests filed on behalf of Clients through 2024 (CLICK HERE)

• FOX NEWS

05/22/2025, The Supreme Court has a major opportunity to help fix illegal immigration, Read Article

06/21/2018, I Was a Childhood Immigrant to the U.S. Trump is Acting Wisely and Compassionately on Illegal Immigration, Read Article

• Townhall

12/18/2024, How Much Does It Take to Buy an Election? Never Enough for Bad Candidates, Read Article

09/20/2024. How the Biden-Harris DOJ Is Privatizing Partisan Censorship to Silence Dissent, Read Article

• NH Journal

11/14/2024, Point: Trump Delivered a Win for Common Sense, Read Article

• Boston Journal

06/22/2024, Backer: Trump’s conviction an absurd double standard, Read Article

• InsideSources

03/27/2023, Possible Trump Indictment Is Just the Same Old Witch Hunt. Read Article

• The Western Journal

09/30/2019, No, President Trump's Ukraine Call Didn't Violate Campaign Finance Law, Read Article

• USA Today

08/23/2018, President Trump Didn’t Violate Campaign-Finance Law, Read Article