‘Deep FEC’ Goes After White House Counsel Don McGahn

March 9, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

The hot political buzz phrase in the early Trump administration is “Deep State.” The phrase was originally coined to refer to the government’s military ...

Bill threatens charities with harmful regulation

March 8, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

In 2015, University of New Mexico senior and Lobos basketball guard Hugh Greenwood called out a Twitter bully for attacking his mother, a breast ...

Tester’s assault on corporate rights is an assault on people’s rights

March 7, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  , ,

The year is 2019. The government sends in a SWAT team to seize any corporate property it wants without the due process or just ...

Democrats’ Bad-Faith Attacks on Neil Gorsuch and ‘Money in Politics’

March 3, 2017   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

Supreme Court justices are supposed to interpret the Constitution faithfully, not make the law as they wish. Senate Democrats and President Trump’s Supreme Court ...

Former FEC Commissioner Ann Ravel’s ugly exit

March 2, 2017   •  By Paul Jossey   •  ,

Federal Election Commissioner (FEC) Ann Ravel’s rocky tenure ended this week on March 1. She resigned with a 25-page screed that painted the campaign ...

Soon-to-be former Democratic FEC chair tried to politicize the bipartisan commission

March 1, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  ,

Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel announced this week her intent to resign on March 1, two months before the expiration of her term. By ...

Brad Smith: Whitehouse measure assaults constitutional rights

February 24, 2017   •  By Brad Smith   •  , ,

The year is 2019. The government sends in a SWAT team to seize any corporate property it wants without the due process or just ...

Dark money bill chills free speech

February 16, 2017   •  By Eric Wang   •  , ,

According to a recent Post and Courier editorial, a campaign finance bill before the state Senate would bring greater transparency to so-called “dark money” ...

Obama was no one’s hero when it came to money in politics

February 8, 2017   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

For eight years, left-leaning groups like Common Cause, Public Citizen, and the Brennan Center for Justice pressured President Obama to do something, anything about ...

Gorsuch’s record shows strong support for the First Amendment view of campaign finance laws

February 6, 2017   •  By David Keating   •  , ,

President Trump made perhaps his most important decision to date with the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. In Gorsuch, Trump ...

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