U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin is under no illusions that there will be an easy path forward for a joint resolution aimed at curtailing the amount of money being used to influence voters, but he also isn’t willing to wait on a better political climate.
Banking on an injunction filed Wednesday against the city, Occupy Dallas protesters are hunkering down as lawyers argue for their right to demonstrate in a city park without a permit.
The Center for Responsive Politics revealed Thursday that corporate campaign spending has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission decision in January 2010. The report comes at the same time as the first major state-level challenge to the controversial ruling.
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…
A district court Judge in Ohio yesterday rejected a lawsuit from the Susan B. Anthony List, which argued an Ohio elections law prohibiting false claims was unconstitutional because it violated the group’s right to free speech.
The suit relates to a longstanding conflict between pro-life groups like More…
Here’s a doozy from our sister site, The Minnesota Independent:
Two Minnesota pastors say they will endorse political candidates from the pulpit this Sunday, in direct defiance of federal law that prohibits such politicking at tax-exempt churches: Brad Brandon of Berean Bible Baptist Church in Hastings announced his intentions
The National Organization for Marriage is at it again, this time suing Rhode Island’s Board of Elections for the right to run TV ads in the state’s gubernatorial race without complying with the disclosure requirements or spending limits that are currently state law:
Today at the Heritage Foundation, legal experts debated the merits of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision — with Justice Anthony Kennedy joining the liberal wing in the majority — in the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case. The Court ruled that public universities may deny funding to student organizations that More…
Newsweek reports that Geert Wilders, the controversial Dutch critic of Islam who was recently banned from entering the United Kingdom, might show up at the Conservative Political Action Conference next week.
David Keene, the president of The American Conservative Union and an organizer of the conference, at first told
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