First Amendment and Campaigns

Vox.com’s “40 charts that explain money in politics” fails miserably at, well, explaining money in politics. The charts seem to be less an explanation ...

This is the first in a series of posts analyzing the language used in debates about campaign finance laws and regulations. Supporters of increased ...

For the past seven weeks, I have had the pleasure of working for the Center for Competitive Politics, the nation’s largest organization dedicated solely ...

Can a group of veterans be prohibited from advocating for public policy, because they wish to use robocalls? That is the question at the ...

On June 18, the Cato Institute hosted a book forum featuring several renowned figures in the campaign finance community. Shaun McCutcheon, the eponymous plaintiff ...

Any law regulating an individual or organization’s free speech rights also implicates their First Amendment rights. The first five words of the First Amendment, ...

New York State recently issued emergency regulations on independent expenditures, changing the definition of what constitutes an independent expenditure so that it now reads ...

On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”), I write to respectfully comment on the Emergency Regulations Relative to Independent Expenditure Reporting, which ...

At a June 3 hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee turned its infinite wisdom to the subject of amending the U.S. Constitution to empower Congress ...

Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to present our views on the hearing titled, “Examining a Constitutional Amendment ...