Plotting the End of Super PACs
More than six years after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, the free-spending super PACs that many progressives consider a blight on American democracy are the target of a multi-pronged...
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View ArticleThe Long Path to Reversing Citizens United
Getting unlimited, special-interest money out of politics, an issue long on the back burner for politicians in Washington, moved front and center with this election year, driven by an outpouring of...
View ArticleHow Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Flouting Campaign Finance Rules
Loopholes being exploited by supporters of both major-party presidential candidates threaten to crumble one of the few bulwarks that remain against a completely lawless campaign finance landscape in a...
View ArticleOutside Spenders Make Final Push To Win Congress
Nearly $120 million dollars, by our count, have poured into elections for US House and Senators in the last week and a half from so-called "outside groups." These groups — super PACs and dark money non...
View ArticleTo Reclaim Democracy, New Lawsuit Aims to Be ‘Death of the Super PAC’
While most people point to Citizens United as the case that opened the door to big money in US elections, the lesser-known 2010 appeals court ruling in SpeechNow.org v. FEC is perhaps just as...
View ArticleBrace Yourself for the Most Expensive Judicial Elections in American History
Yes, Jeb Bush and his cash-spewing, broken-fire-hydrant-of-a-super PAC burned through north of $130 million in a matter of months. Yes, that exercise in lavish mediocrity earned him a whopping four...
View ArticleLike Kryptonite to Campaign Finance Reform
When Hillary Clinton lost the Electoral College, most post-mortems faulted Democrats for failing to empathize with the anger and abandonment that non-coastal Americans were feeling. But last week, when...
View ArticleThese Super PAC Donors Were Able To Hide Their Identities Before The Election
In the final days of the 2016 election, there was concern among Democrats that voters in Philadelphia wouldn’t be able to get to their polling locations due to a transit workers strike. A group of...
View ArticleThe NRA within the Sights
On August 6, Attorney General Letitia James announced that she was launching a lawsuit to disband the National Rifle Association (NRA). Continue reading The post The NRA within the Sights appeared...
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