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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 ...

Citizens United v. FEC may prove to be the most important campaign 1 finance decision in decades as a critical step in a transformation of ...

Congress is considering a novel way to regulate campaigns. The bill at issue, the Fair Elections Now Act. (FENA), combines federal campaign funds with subsidized ...

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, ...

Over the past several decades, a particular abuse of the justice system has developed that poses a serious threat to free expression and petition. Strategic Lawsuits Against ...

Justice Holmes famously asserted that “the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the ...

The public debate over campaign finance reform has at its core a very serious and troubling contradiction. Advocates of campaign finance restrictions decry the subversive effect ...

It may be a cliché to observe that campaign finance reform has proved conclusively that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions and that ...

The Federal Election Commission administers and enforces federal election laws. But campaign finance reformers have argued for years that the FEC does little to stem ...