Political Spending

The federal suit, Carey et al v. FEC, asks the FEC to acknowledge what the courts have already decided: that any political action committee may ...

The Wall Street Journal published an interesting article last week about funding the Inauguration.  Titled “Obama Considers Corporate Funding for Inauguration,” the article looks ...

Should we worry when money and politics mix? Common wisdom suggests that large campaign contributions can corrupt politicians and disenfranchise regular voters. However, Prof. ...

Prof. Bradley Smith illustrates some ways money is used in practice to ensure people have free speech. For example, money used to build a ...

The sexy new questions regarding money in politics — if the word sexy can ever really apply to an issue that breeds contentiousness rather ...

Using information obtained from the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, state websites, and the Center for Responsive Politics, we were able examine the ...

So…can we all just finally get on the same page that money in politics actually does equate to speech in politics? As the esteemed ...

Roll Call’s Eliza Newlin Carney is on a mission. Today Carney takes on competing claims about the role of corporations in the 2008 campaign. ...

The argument that corporate spending on political campaigns is making companies rich has been screamed ad infinitum by the media and pro-regulation groups like ...

Today, two Ivy League law professors touted the groundswell of support for an SEC petition that would require corporations to disclose otherwise-immaterial political spending ...