Disclosure, in the campaign finance context, refers to laws and regulations requiring candidates and political groups to report information about their activities to the government, which then makes that information available publicly. The required information varies greatly, depending on the affected organization and the local, state, or federal government mandating the disclosure. Disclosure rules fall into two broad categories: disclosure…
The Center has serious concerns that this bill would threaten core First Amendment freedoms, including the right of citizens to associate with one another and ...
Disclosure, normally the most widely embraced element of election regulation, became highly controversial in 2010. On the eve of the mid-term elections, a Washington Post ...
The composer Benjamin Britten once said that there “are a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I ...
The legislation being discussed today represents an understandable but misguided approach to campaign finance law. In fact, Pennsylvania’s current status as one of only eleven ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s foundation-shifting decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the media and other commentators could be forgiven for mostly overlooking a ...
The United States Supreme Court decided in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that Congress may not prohibit spending on political speech by corporations. President Obama and ...
Thank you for allowing me to submit testimony on A2595, a bill to require disclosure of the donor and membership lists of private organizations. I ...
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Citizens United v. FEC. Since then, congressional critics of the Court's broad holding ...
Grassroots lobbying is any effort to organize, coordinate or implore others to contact public officials in order to affect public policy. Through grassroots ...
As political campaigns have become more expensive1 and sophisticated,2 Congress has increasingly regulated them,3 yet the Supreme Court has declared many aspects of that regulation unconstitutional.4 Recently, ...