Supreme Court

For a half century, campaign finance jurisprudence has turned on the Supreme Court’s distinction between political contributions and campaign expenditures. In Buckley v. Valeo, 1 the Court ...

UPDATE: The US Supreme Court today announced it will not review the recent decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ...

Neither the same as actual corruption nor well defined in its own right, the “appearance of corruption” as a basis for campaign finance regulation is suspect ...

CCP submitted comments to the FEC regarding the Citizens United decision. 

‘Every dollar I spend over the threshold starts feeding the alligator trying to eat me.’’ That was the description of Arizona’s system for public financing of political ...

Corporate participation in public discourse has long been a controversial issue, one that was reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Much ...

Perhaps the most important thing that the Supreme Court does is to protect those individual rights and enforce those government limits that comprise our civil liberties. ...

United States campaign finance law is riding a wave of constitutionally driven statutory change. After almost two decades of relative deference to Congress’s judgment, the Supreme ...

On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I would like to comment on the Fair Political Practices Commission Interested Persons topic for your Monday, ...

Liberals are currently engaged in a concerted effort to redefine judicial activism. Rather than accepting the true definition of judicial activism—when a judge applies his or her ...