Political Spending

Crooked politicians are often the poster boy for greater campaign finance regulation, used to justify every imaginable measure of government control over speech, from ...

The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) writes this week to warn us of “Outside money pouring into governors races.” The “outsiders” in question: the ...

Despite the repeated mischaracterizations by organizations and politicians ginning up support for controlling Americans’ ability to associate politically by claiming that money buys elections, ...

Yesterday, the American Bar Association’s Taxation Section submitted comments on the IRS’s proposed regulations governing political activity by section 501(c)(4) organizations. As one would ...

Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which freed corporations and labor unions to finance independent expenditures in support of federal candidates, the ...

Yesterday’s Public Citizen event calling for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate a rule forcing corporations to disclose their political spending was ...

The LA Times says we need to break down the wall between church and state in order to save it. This Sunday, in a ...

In a recent interview with Bloomberg News, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started up a chorus of that old familiar tune, “There’s Too ...

The following post is adapted from my 2012 essay, “Spending and Amending: The Past and Future of Citizens United.” It evaluates four major predictions, ...

The following post is adapted from my 2012 essay, “Spending and Amending: The Past and Future of Citizens United.” It evaluates four major predictions, ...