Does the government have the power to suppress a film if it criticizes a candidate running for office? Nine years ago to this day, the Supreme Court said no and ruled in favor of Citizens United, a nonprofit group that wanted to distribute and advertise a movie criticizing Hillary Clinton.Source: 9 years after Citizens United, the decision lives rent-free in...
This article appears in the Winter 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. As a result of the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats now have unified control of 14 state governments and the opportunity to carry out reforms of the electoral process.Source: How Democrats Should Reform Elections in the States...
Three Washington Democrats will explain Tuesday to the state Supreme Court why they voted against their party's presidential nominee in the 2016 election. The three, Levi Guerra, Esther V. John, and Peter B. Chiafalo, were among 12 Democrats the state sent to the Electoral College.Source: Electoral College debate heads to Washington's Supreme Court...
The dark money nonprofit launched by Hillary Clinton following her defeat against Donald Trump relied heavily on just six donors and an $800,000 money transfer from her former presidential campaign committee during its first year, according to tax forms provided to the Washington Free Beacon.Source: Hillary’s Dark Money Group Relies Heavily on Six Donors and Campaign Money...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The future of a much-criticized database that checks if voters are illegally registered in multiple states is up in the air after its patron, Kris Kobach, lost the Kansas race for governor and is out of elected office.Source: Kobach's defeat puts future of voter database in doubt...
An unknown super PAC that got the bulk of its funding from a similarly-named nonprofit spent more than $1 million dollars on a toss-up Senate race then promptly closed up shop less than a month after Election Day.Source: ‘Dark money’-fueled super PAC spent $1 million on Tennessee’s Senate race then shut down...
When Democrats reclaimed majority control of the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California this month, they had many choices on what to make their top legislative priority. It says a lot that the new majority made a bill to upend federal election law House Resolution 1.Source: Pelosi's election ‘reform’ encourages voter fraud to benefit Dems...
Countless pundits and politicians decry the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling for making federal elections murkier than ever, but nine years later, the impact of the 2010 Supreme Court decision has never been clearer. On Jan.Source: A look at the impact of Citizens United on its 9th anniversary...
President Donald Trump’s political team and top Republican officials have reached a landmark agreement to reshape the party’s fundraising apparatus and close the financial gap that devastated them in the midterms.Source: GOP reaches landmark agreement to juice small-dollar fundraising...
The partial government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, is affecting the Federal Election Commission’s ability to enforce campaign finance laws and investigate possible infractions, Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee wrote to the FEC on Wednesday.Source: Democrats seek FEC assurance on campaign finance oversight during shutdown...
