On May 1, 2008, in a 2-1 decision the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled a North Carolina law prohibiting political action committees from accepting individual contributions of more than $4,000 to be unconstitutional.

Despite their continued appeal, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) revealed the names of 65 members on its website. Originally NAM filed a lobbying report that cited the pending case. NAM is opposed to a provision in the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act that requires groups to disclose those that contributed at least $5,000 each during the first quarter of the year and actively participated "in the planning, supervision or control of such lobbying activities." NAM argues that the requirement violates their First Amendment rights.

Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has introduced the Blogger Protection Act of 2008, HR5699. The bill would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act to exempt bloggers and their internet activity from being considered as a contribution to or expenditure of a campaign. The bill would "cover blogs and other Internet and electronic publications under the general media exemption pertaining to expenditures." Therefore bloggers would be able to write about the positions of federal candidates without their material being considered a contribution to any campaign. What about bloggers at nonprofits?

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that its Political Activities Compliance Initiative (PACI) will be in effect for the 2008 election season. "The PACI program seeks to educate section 501(c)(3) organizations such as charities and churches about the federal law concerning political campaign activity and to enforce the law in this area." The IRS press release reports that letters are being sent to the national political party committees, and have asked candidates that their contacts with charitable organizations do not unintentionally put the group's tax-exemption at risk.