Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, proponents of stricter campaign finance regulation have increasingly prescribed “disclosure” as an antidote to “dark money” in politics.Source: Staring at the Sun: An Inquiry into Compulsory Campaign Finance Donor Disclosure Laws...
The Alabama Supreme Court stepped into Tuesday’s U.S.Source: Alabama Supreme Court Blocks Digital Ballot Preservation in Eleventh Hour...
The discovery that Russian-linked firms bought thousands of Facebook ads prompted the return of a common trope in America, namely, that foreigners are engineering our downfall by defiling our political purity. Russia, a familiar foe, now has a new tool: Facebook.Source: Facebook and the new Red Scare...
To the surprise of Supreme Court observers and election lawyers, on Friday the Supreme Court agreed to hear a second political gerrymandering case this term, this time out of Maryland: In October, the justices heard oral argument in a challenge to the redistricting plan passed by Wisconsin’s RepubSource: Supreme Court Grants Cert in Maryland Redistricting Case...
The Institute for Free Speech[1] writes in support of repeal of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Form 990, Schedule B requirement.Source: Letter in Support of Repeal of the Internal Revenue Service’s Form 990, Schedule B...
Since the creation in the 1970s of the modern, primary-election dominated process for nominating presidential candidates, there has been little scholarly or public commentary devoted to large-scale re-assessments of that system or consideration of major structural changes to it.Source: Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process...
NEW ORLEANS — State officials and the minority rights groups suing Texas over its strict voter identification restrictions are headed back to court. A three-judge panel of the U.S.Source: Texas heads back to federal appeals court in long-winding voter ID fight...
The Boulder District Attorney's Office has concluded that New Era Colorado did not violate any election laws in offering rides to the polls and slices of pizza to prospective voters at the University of Colorado last month.Source: No quid pro quo in New Era Colorado's free pizza and rides to the polls, Boulder DA rules...
Update: This story has been updated to clarify Facebook’s ad-review process. In September, an ad with the headline, “New Approval Ratings For President Trump Announced And It’s Not Going The Way You Think,” targeted Facebook users in the U.S.Source: Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware...
President Trump led an aggressive charge Monday on behalf of embattled Senate nominee Roy Moore, with the Republican National Committee rejoining Moore’s side in Alabama weeks after cutting ties with him following allegations of sexual misconduct.Source: RNC to support Roy Moore in Senate race in Alabama, weeks after cutting ties with his campaign...
