First Amendment and Campaigns

In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, struck down a federal ban on independent expenditures in political ...

This morning a Texas Appeals Court acquitted former Congressman Tom DeLay of charges of “judgments convicting him of the offenses of money laundering of ...

Bill de Blasio has never been shy regarding his views on money in politics.  Using his pulpit as New York City Public Advocate, de Blasio advanced ...

The Committee for Economic Development is holding a big event (free lunch with registration!) at the National Press Club today to unveil the results ...

As a constitutional law professor, it is a privilege to have an article appear in the Wiley A. Branton Symposium at an institution that has played ...

The longstanding legal rationale upholding certain campaign finance restrictions has been that they prevent corruption or the appearance of corruption, but do they? Recent ...

On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I respectfully submit the following comments on constitutional issues with portions of Assembly Measure No. 3863. ...

The Supreme Court has long held that campaign finance regulations are permissible for preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption. Yet the implied hypothesis that ...

External Relations Director Matt Nese submitted comments to the Maryland Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee on Senate Bill 1039, which makes several welcome revisions to existing ...

The Center for Competitive Politics filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota, challenging a state ban on ...