SLAPPed! Coming to a Courtroom Near You

February 19, 2010   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

The Center for Competitive Politics is pleased to welcome this guest blog post by Samantha Brown of the Federal Anti-SLAPP Project Politicians Behaving Badly ...

Ballot petition freedom updates

December 16, 2009   •  By Jeff Patch   •  ,

A couple ballot petition freedom lawsuits are working their way through the federal courts. The tireless Richard Winger of Ballot Access News has more: ...

Blogger Protection Act of 2008

April 2, 2008   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

A bill to protect bloggers from campaign finance regulations.

H.R. 2093

May 2, 2007   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

Text of H.R. 2093, the grassroots lobbying disclosure proposal introduced by former Representative Marty Meehan (D-MA) in the 110th Congress.

A New Year’s resolution we could do without

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December 28, 2006   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

Incoming Speaker Pelosi has resolved to make grassroots lobbying disclosure a part of the flurry of legislation to be passed during the new Congress' ...

Racing to Absurdity: What would Dale Earnhardt Do?

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December 26, 2006   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

The FEC announced today its decisions in a couple of "MURs" (that's "Matters Under Review" for you normal folk).   The one

Now this is kinda funny!

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December 24, 2006   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Light blogging through the New Year doesn't mean that we can't share a good laugh.  Fortunately, the humorless "reform" community is always there to ...

WRTL v. FEC: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

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December 22, 2006   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

In a bit of welcome news for the Free Speech Community, a special three judge district court has ruled ...

Millionaire’s Amendment MUR Madness

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December 21, 2006   •  By IFS staff   •  ,

We always knew that the so-called "Millionaire's Amendment" was a silly law, but if the FEC's most recent pronouncement on the law's requirements is ...

Disclosure versus Snooping: Do ‘reformers’ know the difference?

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December 19, 2006   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

The Federal Election Commission has adopted new guidelines requiring political committees to include more information about the purposes of their various disbursements.  It goes ...

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