In a shocking slam on political Super PACs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission this week charged that "over 90 percent" spend their millions raised by white men helping only white men.Source: Shock charge: FEC chair says Super PACs only help white men...
The Justice spoke at Duke. She said this about Citizens United (via Adam Liptak): The words in the Arizona case were “the legislature thereof.” What were the Founding Fathers thinking about? They were thinking about who had a legislative function.Source: Justice Ginsburg Speaks on Citizens United, Arizona Redistricting...
As Bob Conner reported for IVN in 2014, New Jersey’s independents spent approximately $100 million to pay for primaries in which they could not vote between 2000 and 2013. The obvious question is, how did this come to be? How did taxpayers come to subsidize party primaries?Source: The Story Behind Why You Have to Pay for Party Primaries...
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU. As soon as the Court decided to hear Evenwel, a barely suppressed anger emerged in many quarters, on grounds of both process and substance.Source: Symposium: Misguided hysteria over Evenwel v. Abbott...
The use of economic resources to support election campaigns is an essential ingredient of democratic competition. Often viewed as a malady of democracy, campaign finance is actually part of the normal workings of democratic life.Source: The cost of democracy: Campaign finance regulation in Latin America...
Pursuing America’s Greatness is a PAC that wants to make independent expenditures in support of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.Source: PAC Supporting Mike Huckabee Independently Sues FEC to Gain Ability to Use Huckabee’s Name for its Facebook Page...
At the start of his career, not long after he helped Richard Nixon win the 1968 election, Roger Ailes boasted to a reporter that television would one day replace the political party as the most powerful force in American politics.Source: The Fox News GOP Debate Could Draw the Biggest Audience in Cable News History — and Roger Ailes Is Making...
[Image courtesy of FVAP] It’s that time of year when election data is seemingly everywhere – and the latest installment is from the DoD’s Federal Voting Assistance Program, which yesterday released its latest report to Congress about voting Americans around the world under the Uniformed andSource: FVAP Releases 2014 Post-Election Report to Congress...
Last year, The Washington Post Editorial Board panned a smartphone app that sorts companies by how Democratic or Republican they are.Source: Someone killed a lion. Want to see his political contribution history?...
Does the Federal Election Commission utilize an unlawful voting procedure to initiate enforcement actions under the Federal Election Campaign Act? A decision yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Combat Veterans for Congress Political Action Committee v.Source: Is the Federal Election Commission’s voting procedure unlawful?...
