Corporate and Union Advocacy

The video examines five common misconceptions about the Citizens United decision that many critics of the decision tend to gloss over, such as the ...

Debates over campaign finance regulation are typically dominated by arguments over what counts as speech and who counts as a speaker. While the battle ...

Over the past 15 years advocates of campaign finance reform, frustrated by the structure and design of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), have attempted to offload ...

The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) and the Cato Institute filed a joint friend-of-the-court brief urging that strict scrutiny must be applied to a law that ...

Most Americans express deep reservations about corporate campaign contributions, expenditures, lobbying, and other ways that for-profit entities are involved in elections and legislation. There are two ...

S.B. 121 imposes burdensome and impractical requirements on corporations. Under the auspices of shareholder protection, this bill will serve only to stifle speech, and ...

CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 12-80: Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs).   Currently, if ...

In early 2008, a group called Citizens United sought to air commercials for their documentary that was highly critical of then-Senator Hillary Clinton. This ...

CCP Chairman Brad Smith has penned an excellent op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal titled, “The Dangers of an Informed Electorate,” in which he ...

Today, Governor Dannel P. Malloy (D-Conn.) vetoed a substantial expansion of Connecticut’s campaign finance laws, citing the bill’s constitutional infirmity. The Center for Competitive ...