Fred Wertheimer is president of Democracy 21. Jan. 21 marks the 10th anniversary of the disastrous Citizens United decision, the most consequential — and ...
'Last week,” President Obama declared a decade ago, “the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special ...
Ten years ago today, a bogeyman was born. Its name is Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on independent corporate political ...
Joe Biden is running on a pledge of normalcy, but if Biden wins, our nation must resist any return to the same old business as usual. After all, it was our already ...
Being with John McCain, who died Saturday afternoon, could be a lot of work but was almost always fun. There were many often heroic chapters in this exciting ...
NEW YORK — Ten years ago last week, a bogeyman was born. Its name is Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on independent ...
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act was one of the late Sen. John McCain's legacies while he was in office, a law on campaign finance reform passed in 2002.
Nearly 70 inmates broke out of a prison in Lebanon Saturday after smashing their cell doors and attacking prison guards, police said. According to a police ...
Andrew Lelling says there were some small, individual cases -- such as the Boston ballot box fire -- but added that his office saw nothing systemic that would ...
Asked as he left a church in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 21, if all Americans should be allowed to attend religious services amid the coronavirus pandemic, ...
The United States topped 12 million cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, as the third wave's uncontrolled spread prompted the Centers for Disease Control and ...
From our current vantage point, with politics awash in money of murky billionaire provenance, John McCain's best-known legislative achievement, the Bipartisan ...
Despite a new round of COVID-19 restrictions in Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, one locally owned gym has made it a point to not enforce wearing ...
A record 1.2 million new coronavirus cases were reported this past week, as the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for ...
Democrats knew that campaign-finance reform would cripple their fundraising ability—but they backed the idea anyway, largely on principle. Republicans knew ...
Five years ago Wednesday, five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court handed down their decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. A hundred ...
Former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold will take the reins at the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal group, as the partisan fight over the courts ...
Our first priority today … is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.” — Doris Granny D ...
Opposition to “dark money” was one thing Maine's U.S. Senate candidates were able to agree on in a debate last week. But U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ...
Members of the Journal Sentinel's Editorial Board, along with news reporters and editors, recently interviewed the Wisconsin candidates for U.S. Senate.
We endorse Russ Feingold as someone who will protect our essential rights and freedoms, and still believes we can find common ground in the struggle for a ...
May 22, 2017 – The U.S. Supreme Court today affirmed a lower court decision upholding the ban on corporate contributions to the national political parties, ...
While the long effort to enact the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law made McCain a pariah in some GOP circles, it remains a significant legacy of the ...
The 2020 presidential campaign might well be remembered as when the dam truly broke on money in U.S. politics. Twelve years after the first presidential ...
Ann McBride Norton, who rose from being a part-time volunteer at Common Cause, the nonpartisan public-interest group, to becoming the first woman to lead ...
The campaign finance dream team of Sens. Russ Feingold and John McCain is reuniting to block President Barack Obama's first appointment to the Federal ...
WASHINGTON — Russ Feingold, the former Democratic senator from Wisconsin, is assuming the leadership of the American Constitution Society, a progressive ...
New York Daily NewsIn 2008, a conservative nonprofit organization, Citizens United, tried releasing its antiHillary Clinton documentary “Hillary: The Movie.
Bye-bye, "America First"! Hello, "Buy American"? Seeking to evict Donald Trump from the White House at a time of sudden mass unemployment, former Vice ...
These days, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell regularly scoffs at Democrats' sweeping anti-corruption bill to set up more transparency around money in ...
In part two of Sway's two-part election integrity series, Kara Swisher speaks to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and an ...
Twenty years ago, a little old woman from Dublin, N.H., mounted the steps of the U.S. Capitol and entered the annals of American history.Doris “Granny D” ...
The 2020 presidential campaign might well be remembered as when the dam truly broke on money in U.S. politics. Twelve years after the first presidential ...
The Supreme Court did enough damage by freeing corporations to make unlimited donations to independent groups. Now Republicans want to lift the ban on ...
With three billionaires in the running, campaigns, political parties and outside groups are all likely to break previous spending records during the 2020 ...
Russ Feingold was born and raised in Wisconsin. He knows the state and its values. That's why he has led most of the polls for most of 2016 in the race for the ...
A proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution would dramatically change how the commonwealth draws lines to govern representation in Congress and ...
Nearly everyone in America agrees that there is too much influence-seeking money in politics, except for the people who benefit from it. Public concern over the ...
Last December, the independent Office of Congressional Ethics released a report concluding that there was “substantial reason” to believe that freshman Rep.
It's the season for political ads. The *content* of our current deluge of political ads ranges from the banal to the tasteless to the truly sleazy. Special interests are ...
Our democracy has long been ransomed by wealthy donors and powerful special interests. Wealthy donors account for a disproportionate amount of the $6.8 ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law meant to level the financial playing field when rich candidates pay for their own political ...
This post has been updated. The end-of-year spending bill deal crafted by congressional leaders Tuesday would dramatically expand the amount of money that ...
If you're in politics, money will find you. This little statement of the obvious is perhaps too easily forgotten by politicians. They vote themselves occasional pay ...
Hayley Mason, Pia Velasco, Jasmine Purdie; HelloGiggles. Flip through your favorite beauty magazine and you'll undoubtedly see hundreds of products ...
Today, August 27, Montclair Public Schools' buildings will have their flags at half-staff in honor of John McCain. I strongly disagree with this choice.
Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn't abide Manafort's pro-Russian ...
The Texas GOP senator says donors should be able to cover his campaign loans after an election. Anti-corruption advocates warn against a loophole for ...
John McCain held Donald Trump in deserved contempt, and Trump mocked and detested him in return. But in a sense, Trump is one of the best things that ever ...
The First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech is under attack in Maine. The attackers include Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, the editorial page ...
David Greene talks to former Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi about times when he and his colleague Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday, went head-to-head on ...
There are worrying signs that there may well be five votes on the Supreme Court to rule that the ban on corporate contributions violates the First Amendment.
Former Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) announced Thursday that he'll make a comeback bid for his old seat. In his announcement video, Feingold said he wants ...
Chad Draxler 's 24 January letter,” Never Calls Out Conservative Party”, continues, even fosters, non-engagement. Sadly, he pursues a “Platt River” perspective ...
As his relationship with a female lobbyist underscores, John McCain's confidence in his own integrity sometimes seems to blind him to potential conflicts.
In a few days, the U.S. Supreme Court will announce a decision that could have a profound impact on America's future — and, no, it's not about health care ...
In the first six months of this year, 329 people were killed in Chicago, most of them by firearms, only three at the hands of police. This death toll was a 34% ...
Madison has a reputation for asking tough questions regarding new plans and projects. Sometimes, Madisonians are accused of engaging in knee-jerk “Not in ...
The late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will be laid to rest this week after a series of memorials and ceremonies in Arizona and Washington, D.C.. A public *service* is ...
A Washington-based election watchdog has filed a complaint against 3M Co., accusing the Minnesota-based company of violating a campaign finance rule that ...
It is perhaps the central irony of our politics today: We live in an incredibly polarized and partisan moment, but our political parties have never been weaker.
Don't blame Citizens United for the worst excesses of this year's election. Instead, look to the failures of the Federal Election Commission. The Supreme Court's ...
