Warren and Whitehouse Deceive on Oil Industry Contributions

August 19, 2016   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , , ,

In their recent Washington Post op-ed, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) shower praise on the continuing efforts by Democratic attorneys general ...

Democratic AGs Double Down on Criminalizing Opposing Views

August 17, 2016   •  By Joe Albanese   •  , , ,

Last week, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) penned an op-ed in The Washington Post about the investigations of ExxonMobil by several ...

Renewed IRS Scrutiny Reminds Us Free Speech is Still Vulnerable to Federal Encroachment

August 16, 2016   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

The IRS scandal has been a major point of conservative criticism during the last several years of the Obama Administration. When the tax-collecting agency ...

The Internet and Free Speech

August 15, 2016   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , ,

The Federal Election Commission recently voted along party lines on the issue of whether to impose sanctions on a nonprofit that posted a video ...

On Bob Bauer and “Evidence”

August 15, 2016   •  By Paul Jossey   •  ,

Bob Bauer responded to my early summer post about professors Rick Hasen and Larry Lessig’s use of the infamous ‘Gilens and Page’ study. In ...

On First Amendment Issues, 2016 Party Platforms Differ Greatly from Each Other, But also from 2012

August 4, 2016   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

The Democratic and Republican National Conventions have ended, and attention has shifted to the general election season ahead. Yet the parties’ respective platforms endure ...

‘Leaks’ Courtesy of the FEC: No Hacking Necessary

August 3, 2016   •  By Alex Baiocco   •  , ,

The recent news of the leaked DNC emails, along with the more recent DCCC hack, has left many observers concerned about the state of ...

Surprise, Surprise: Partisan Grandstanding from FEC Commissioners Has Hurt the Agency’s Morale

August 2, 2016   •  By Joe Albanese   •  ,

The Federal Election Commission’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a July 2016 study on the root causes of its infamously low employee ...

Melania Trump Controversy Shows the Silliness of Campaign Finance Laws

July 22, 2016   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

The controversy over Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention – well, one of them anyway – is a reminder that much of ...

Broccoli, Islam, Trump, and the Vanishing Line Between Political Speech and Speech

July 19, 2016   •  By Brad Smith   •  , ,

One of the big problems with campaign finance reform is deciding what speech should be regulated. As Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote, “Every idea is ...

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