The First Amendment guarantees every American freedom of speech. That freedom includes the right to spend money on speech. Without money, a political group cannot buy ads, print fliers, organize protests, or hire staff. Short of shouting one’s opinions on a street corner, it takes money to spread a message. Recognizing this relationship, the Supreme Court has long prohibited the…
“Dark money” is a pejorative term for spending on ads urging the election or defeat of candidates by nonprofit groups – typically 501(c)(4) social welfare ...
The Center for Competitive Politics (“CCP”) submits these comments in response to the Commission’s May 14, 2015 proposed changes to its rules purporting to ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I write to offer comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Rules Concerning Campaign and Political ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I am writing you today to respectfully submit the following comments regarding the constitutional and practical ...
L.D. 1192 imposes disclosure requirements that single out by name political contributors whose aggregate contributions exceed a certain threshold, but the disclosure appears to ...
The right to private civic engagement – the right to participate in politics confidentially as an individual or in association with others – is under ...
This legislation would treat an expansive universe of activities having absolutely nothing to do with elections as potentially being coordinated spending with a candidate, ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I respectfully submit the following comments to highlight serious constitutional and practical problems presented by Assembly ...
Abstract: Research on political science has been inconclusive in establishing whether political campaigns significantly influence electoral results. This study attempts to solve the dispute ...
On behalf of the Center for Competitive Politics, I am writing you today to respectfully submit the following comments regarding the constitutional and practical ...