Political Spending

This piece originally appeared in The Hill on March 19, 2017.   With confirmation hearings for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch fast ...

Democrats in Congress have signaled their intention to make campaign finance a major theme of the Gorsuch hearings this week. No doubt with that ...

As amended by the sponsor on March 14, 2017, House Bill 1005 now contains only two major provisions. The first regulates “coordinated communications,” and ...

Supporters of greater campaign finance regulation often claim that their issue is of paramount importance to voters. Their evidence is often biased polling. For ...

Supreme Court justices are supposed to interpret the Constitution faithfully, not make the law as they wish. Senate Democrats and President Trump’s Supreme Court ...

If Legislative Bill 252 becomes law as written, there is a high likelihood that the law will be found unconstitutional if challenged in court. ...

The progressive advocacy group Demos released a study examining the demographics of the “elite donor” class, arguing that its makeup unfairly shapes policy formation ...

According to a recent Post and Courier editorial, a campaign finance bill before the state Senate would bring greater transparency to so-called “dark money” ...

The Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”) provides the following analysis of the bill designated as S. 255[3] to regulate certain “campaign practices,” which is ...

For eight years, left-leaning groups like Common Cause, Public Citizen, and the Brennan Center for Justice pressured President Obama to do something, anything about ...