Super PACs

This has been a great week for coverage of important campaign finance and political issues. Center for Competitive Politics’ researcher Scott Blackburn wrote an ...

Does Larry Lessig think he and his supporters are above the law? In response to a complaint that CCP filed with the FEC, documenting ...

First Amendment political speech freedoms dramatically increased last year as nine state legislatures continued to liberalize campaign finance laws in the wake of the 2010 ...

A recent Washington Post article tells the story of a group of teenagers who started a Super PAC just to see if they could. ...

  It’s frustrating for an academic when one’s work is misinterpreted. It’s even more frustrating when that misinterpretation is your own fault, and the ...

Super PACs seem to have burst upon the electoral scene in 2010, following the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission.1 ...

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 ...

Across the country, there are as many systems of campaign finance law and regulation as there are states. These systems run the gamut from ...

Three years ago the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. It found that Congress lacked the power to prohibit independent ...

It’s something of a slow news day for the pro-speech side of campaign finance issues so here’s a piece from a young student writing ...