The ACLU sent letters to public schools around the country, including Rochester High School in Michigan, demanding that they change the filters on their computers to stop preventing students from accessing LGBT websites.
This is not about pornographic sites of any kind, it’s about sites for organizations like the More…
By any objective measure, conservative social interest groups haven’t been big spenders in the recent midterm election cycle. Compared to groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which plans to spend $75 million dollars, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which brags it will spend More…
SpeechNow.org, which won a major victory against the Federal Election Commission in a case that came on the heels of Citizens United and expanded the scope of campaign finance deregulation, is up with a new advertisement attacking Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) in his uphill Senate re-election battle against Republican More…
How are this year’s campaign finance rulings like Citizens United and SpeechNow.org v. the FEC playing out on the ground and in the airwaves in battleground states like Colorado? The state is vying for the “honor” of being the top recipient of spending by outside political and issue advocacy groups More…
James Bopp, Jr., the conservative First Amendment lawyer who argued Citizens United and is also representing the National Organization for Marriage in a number of campaign finance challenges across the country, turns out also to be arguing the lawsuit that the Susan B. Anthony List has filed against More…
U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi held an in-chambers conference on NOM’s lawsuit against the Rhode Island Board of Elections today. (That’s lawyer-speak for a hearing on scheduling a hearing for the case.) The basic issue is this: NOM hopes to run political ads on behalf of Rhode Island gubernatorial More…
The Nevada Democratic Party filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission on Wednesday against the state’s Senate GOP candidate Sharron Angle and her onetime primary competitor Danny Tarkanian. The complaint alleges that Tarkanian violated FEC rules by campaigning for Angle and running a political committee against Senate Majority More…
President Obama’s comments on Friday and Saturday concerning the right of what’s now commonly referred to as the “Ground Zero Mosque” to break earth in downtown Manhattan continue to drive the day. Anyone who’s anyone has staked out an opinion on the matter, with the exception of some congressional Democrats More…
On Monday afternoon, President Obama convened a press conference in the Rose Garden to promote legislation that would counteract the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which held that corporate spending on campaign ads can’t be restricted under the First Amendment. The DISCLOSE Act would require corporations, unions and nonprofit groups More…
Yesterday, we reported that in response to pressure from the National Rifle Association and other groups, House Democrats decided to exempt the NRA and some other large organizations from the DISCLOSE Act, which will require corporate funders of campaign ads to attach disclosure messages to the ads.
It seems More…
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