Political Spending

The Wesleyan Media Project and the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) have a new report out on independent spending in 2014 Senate races. Unfortunately, ...

Last Wednesday, The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart wrote a noteworthy piece criticizing former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich for his inane statements ...

Wednesday, as part of George Washington University’s Political Law Studies Initiative, a panel of campaign finance and election law experts met to discuss a ...

On Wednesday morning, Law Professor Daniel Tokaji and Graduate Research Fellow Renata Strause, both of Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, unveiled their ...

Crooked politicians are often the poster boy for greater campaign finance regulation, used to justify every imaginable measure of government control over speech, from ...

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) writes this week to warn us of “Outside money pouring into governors races.” The “outsiders” in question: the ...

Despite the repeated mischaracterizations by organizations and politicians ginning up support for controlling Americans’ ability to associate politically by claiming that money buys elections, ...

Yesterday, the American Bar Association’s Taxation Section submitted comments on the IRS’s proposed regulations governing political activity by section 501(c)(4) organizations. As one would ...

Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which freed corporations and labor unions to finance independent expenditures in support of federal candidates, the ...

Yesterday’s Public Citizen event calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate a rule forcing corporations to disclose their political spending was ...