campaign finance laws

The end of representative government?0
- March 20, 2023
None of the four “progressive” mega-donors had any personal connections to most of the legislative districts they targeted. They didn’t live there, didn’t own property there, and in most cases probably had never seen the district.
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How “progressive” court decisions promoted the rise of dark money 0
- August 11, 2019
“Progressive” Supreme Court decisions that led directly or indirectly to the orgy of anonymous spending
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With due respect to the Supreme Court, some campaign finance laws are unconstitutional 0
- July 17, 2017
But Citizens United included a second decision, one rarely mentioned. In this part of the case, the court upheld federal laws requiring contributors to political ads to publicly reveal their names. Unlike the first ruling, the second was a constitutional mistake. Although the court has since reaffirmed its position, it should promptly reconsider.
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Get Members of Congress Out of the Business of Rigging Campaign Rules 0
- May 4, 2014
The Supreme Court’s latest campaign finance decision, McCutcheon v. FEC, has sent up the predictable howls. In McCutcheon, the Court struck down, as violating the First Amendment, certain incumbent-protection rules that Members of Congress had rigged for their own election campaigns. But no one—including the Court—has yet convincingly addressed a question even more fundamental than
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