President Trump’s vow to “destroy” the 1954 Johnson Amendment, which restricts nonprofits like churches or charities from engaging in any political speech, is a good idea. Despite some hysterical reactions, the truth is that, as it stands, the Johnson Amendment is horribly written.Source: Trump is Right: Destroy The Johnson Amendment...
One of the major threats to free speech today is not censorship. It’s harassment. Here’s how it works. People join or give money to groups that support causes they believe in. Those groups attract the ire of government officials when they criticize them or take a position they oppose.Source: Gorsuch Understands How Bureaucratic Bullies Harm First Amendment Rights...
WASHINGTON • As President Donald Trump raged in an Oval Office filled with tense senior aides, he trained his eyes on one in particular: White House Counsel Don McGahn.Source: Trump's in-house guardrail: White House Counsel Don McGahn...
Congress, the Office of Government Ethics, and the White House have been lobbing views back and forth on whether the White House is subject to executive branch-wide ethics standards.Source: Ethics Issues and Resolutions: The Conway Case...
Carson City, NV – Voting rights advocates and Nevada officials announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in order to streamline and modernize voter registration opportunities through the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).Source: Voting Rights Advocates Announce Agreement with State of Nevada to Modernize Voter Registration Opportunities...
MADISON, Wis. — Dozens of 17-year-olds voted illegally across Wisconsin during last spring's intense presidential primary, apparently wrongly believing they could cast ballots if they turned 18 ahead of the November general election, according to a new state report.Source: Report: 17-year-olds voted illegally in Wisconsin primary...
Care about freedom of the press? Support independent investigative journalism.Source: FEC earning congressional attention — for the wrong reasons...
This story says Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering running for U.S. Senate in 2018 as an independent. If he does that, his own top-two law will not permit him to have the ballot label “independent”.Source: Report Says Arnold Schwarzenegger is Thinking of Running for U.S. Senate in 2018 as an Independent...
Happy Women’s History Month! This year has already seen historic large-scale demonstrations celebrating women and demanding equal rights, starting with the day after President Trump’s inauguration, when millions gathered on the National Mall and around the globe for Women’s March events.Source: Women candidates under attack (really!) by outside groups. (Men, not so much.)...
Former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel left a lengthy note as she left town to explain how bad things had gotten at the FEC. Her agency would not help drain the swamp; a bloc of Commissioners had scuttled the agency’s mission to enforce campaign finance disclosure and limits.Source: The FEC and the Draining of Swamps -...
