Editing David Bossie (section)

==Career==
[[File:David Bossie by Gage Skidmore 3.jpg|right|thumb|Bossie addressing the 2012 [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.]]
A volunteer firefighter in his youth, Bossie dropped out of university to pursue politics. Bossie was the youth director of Senator [[Bob Dole]]'s 1988 presidential campaign.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-rnc-convention-bossie-20160718-story.html|title=David Bossie, conservative activist behind Citizens United case, takes more active role in Md. politics|last=Fritze|first=John|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=June 18, 2016|access-date=June 18, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Congressional investigator===
After the Republicans won control of the [[United States House of Representatives]] in the [[U.S. House elections, 1994|1994 elections]], [[Dan Burton (U.S. Congressman)|Dan Burton]] (R-IN) became [[chairman]] of the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|House Committee on Government Reform and new Oversight]]. In 1997, he hired Bossie as chief investigator to look into possible campaign finance abuses by U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="Clines1997">{{cite news|title='Pit Bull' Congressman Gets a Chance to Be More Aggressive| work=[[The New York Times]]|first=Francis X. |last=Clines |date=March 9, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/us/pit-bull-congressman-gets-a-chance-to-be-more-aggressive.html}}</ref>

By May 1998, Burton came under intense partisan pressure; even fellow Republicans complained that committee staff had published redacted tapes and transcripts of former [[United States Associate Attorney General]] [[Webster Hubbell]]'s [[Inmate telephone system|prison telephone calls]] omitting some [[wikt:exculpatory|exculpatory]] passages. [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Newt Gingrich]] pressed Burton to seek Bossie's resignation.<ref name="Alvarez1998" /> Shortly thereafter, Burton accepted Bossie's resignation.<ref name="Schmitt1998" />

===Citizens United===
[[File:David Bossie by Gage Skidmore 4.jpg|right|thumb|Bossie speaking about Citizens United at the 2013 CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland.]]
During his tenure at [[Citizens United (organization)|Citizens United]], which he had joined as a researcher after [[Bill Clinton]] was elected in 1992,<ref>{{cite news|title= Trump's new hire David Bossie has decades-long history attacking Clintons|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/03/citizens-united-david-bossie-trump-campaign|last=Gambino|first=Lauren|date=September 3, 2016|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> the organization focused increasingly on producing [[film documentaries]] through its [[Citizens United (organization)#Documentaries|Citizens United Productions]] division. Their films have included:
*''[[Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration]]''
*''[[Celsius 41.11]]''
*''[[Rediscovering God in America]]'', hosted by Newt and [[Callista Gingrich]]
*''[[Hillary: The Movie]]''
*''[[Occupy Unmasked]]''

Citizens United hoped to begin distribution of the feature film ''[[Hillary: The Movie]]'' in January or February 2008. The [[Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act]] of 2002 made that an unlawful electioneering communication.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission |vol=558 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=310 |court=[[Supreme Court of the United States]] |date=2010 |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZO.html |access-date=March 28, 2019 |quote=For the same reasons we uphold the application of BCRA §§201 and 311 to the ads, we affirm their application to Hillary . We find no constitutional impediment to the application of BCRA's disclaimer and disclosure requirements to a movie broadcast via video-on-demand. And there has been no showing that, as applied in this case, these requirements would impose a chill on speech or expression.}}</ref> They sued, unsuccessfully, for an [[injunction]] to prohibit the [[Federal Election Commission]] from enforcement of those provisions of BCRA on [[First Amendment]] grounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://moneyline.cq.com/flatfiles/editorialFiles/moneyLine/reference/20080115hillary.pdf|access-date=January 21, 2012|title=Memorandum Opinion, ''Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission''|id=Civil Action No. 07-2240|author=U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia|author-link=U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia|date=January 15, 2008}}</ref>

In a 2010 [[landmark decision]], the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decided ''[[Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission]]'' for Citizens United. [[For-profit corporation]]s and [[not-for-profit corporation]]s may now advertise and broadcast messages of a political nature without limits on how much they can spend and with few limits on the timing and nature of the messages.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/19/us/politics/0120-scotus-campaign.html|title=Changes in the Way Corporations Can Finance Campaign|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 21, 2010}}</ref>

===Trump presidential campaigns===
In September 2016, [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|presidential candidate]] [[Donald Trump]] hired Bossie to be his new deputy campaign manager.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-hires-head-of-citizens-united-to-be-deputy-campaign-manager/ |title=Donald Trump hires longtime president of Citizens United David Bossie to be new deputy campaign manager |last=Garrett |first=Major |date=September 2, 2016 |website=CBS news |access-date=September 2, 2016}}</ref> In November 2020, following the conclusion of the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], Trump recruited Bossie again to challenge ballot counting in states with tight margins.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Maggie|first=Haberman|date=November 6, 2020|title=On a Fourth Day of Counting, an Anxious Nation Keeps Waiting|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/06/us/trump-biden|access-date=November 12, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> On November 9, it was reported that Bossie had tested positive for [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. He had attended Trump's [[White House COVID-19 outbreak#Election Night party|Election Night party]], as had others who tested positive around the same time, such as [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development|Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] [[Ben Carson]] and [[White House Chief of Staff]] [[Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician)|Mark Meadows]]. At this point, Bossie dropped out of the recount effort.<ref>{{Cite news|date=November 10, 2020|title=Trump campaign adviser Bossie tests positive for COVID-19: source|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bossie-idUSKBN27P2QU|access-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref> In February 2022, Bossie "spearheaded" a Republican National Committee resolution to formally censure [[Liz Cheney]] and [[Adam Kinzinger]] for their perceived disloyalty to Trump.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://wtop.com/national/2022/02/gop-now-looks-to-censure-cheney-and-kinzinger-not-oust-them/ |title=GOP now looks to censure Cheney and Kinzinger, not oust them |date=February 4, 2022 |access-date=February 4, 2022 |work=[[WTOP-FM]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Orr |first1=Gabby |title=RNC approves censure of Cheney, Kinzinger for involvement in January 6 committee |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-censure-rnc/index.html |access-date=February 4, 2022 |work=CNN |date=February 4, 2022}}</ref>