A poll earlier this year showed that 80 percent of Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Most people want corporate campaign spending to be limited; even more want it to be transparent. So why can’t Congress pass legislation to require independently funded campaign ads to reveal More…
The flood of political spending, coupled with the likely defeat of campaign finance hero Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), is making the elections a pretty grim spectacle for campaign finance advocates, but The Wall Street Journal opinion page is feeling positively giddy:
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A new post on the on the Constitutional Accountability Center’s climate change blog lays out what’s at stake for state climate change laws in two upcoming Supreme Court cases on federal preemption.
Intrigued, I called up Doug Kendall, president of CAC, a progressive think tank and law firm, to More…
Most campaign finance reform advocates are calling for greater restrictions — or at least stricter disclosure requirements — on donations from outside groups in response to the flood of spending in the 2010 elections. Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), one of the few Republicans this election cycle who’s facing a moderately strong More…
Social issues might be taking a back seat to fiscal issues in many states in the lead-up to next week’s elections, but don’t tell that to Iowa. The state’s judicial retention election for three Iowa Supreme Court justices who voted to allow gay marriage in 2009 is drawing in More…
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, many groups, from independent political action committees to the Republican National Committee, decided to test the waters and file cases against the Federal Elections Commission arguing that they, too, should enjoy the ability to solicit unlimited donations for spending on More…
Americans seem a lot quicker to be roused by the prospect of foreign nationals spending money in U.S. elections than, say, big domestic corporations, but why can’t foreigners spend like the rest of us? Loyola Law School Professor Rick Hasen argued the other week that the Supreme Court’s 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…
This summer, Americans who hadn’t studied civics since eighth grade got a refresher on the 14th Amendment when several Republican senators called for its repeal. Now, that push is gaining considerable steam, but on the state level, where Republican state representatives across the country are planning to introduce More…
In the best-case scenario, Texas state Rep. Leo Berman hopes his state will be sued. The representative for Texas’ 6th District, along with more than a dozen other Republican state legislators across the country, plans to introduce a bill in the next session calling for his state to discontinue
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