Wilderness Society v. Bureau of Land Management

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the federal government “does have the power to fix the terms upon which its money allotments to states shall be disbursed”
• allowing Congress to require federally-funded state governmental entities to adhere to the Hatch Act despite Congress’ inability to regulate local politics
• allowing Congress to require federally-funded state governmental entities to adhere to the Hatch Act despite Congress' inability to regulate local politics
• upholding condition withholding highway funds from state when highway official violated Hatch Act’s prohibition against participating in political campaign
• stating that the Administrative Pro- cedure Act’s (APA’s
• “The end sought by Congress through the Hatch Act is better public service by requiring those who administer funds for national needs to abstain from active political partisanship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).