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In the much discussed Citizens United v. FEC case, the Supreme Court overturned existing prohibitions on corporate political expenditures and recognized that outright prohibitions on ...

In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the scope of political speech protected under the First Amendment ...

Corporations, like unions and other organizations, have a constitutional right to discuss politics. The Supreme Court has explicitly welcomed corporate speech on political topics, including ...

On June 27, 2011 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett that the election policies of several states ...

Perhaps the most important thing that the Supreme Court does is to protect those individual rights and enforce those government limits that comprise our civil liberties. ...

Money from Exxon, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and the rest of the Fortune 500 is already corroding the policy making process in Washington, state capitals and ...

The 2008 election cycle was the first in Connecticut where candidates for state legislature could choose to accept taxpayer dollars to fund their campaigns, replacing ...

On March 31, 2009, Senators Arlen Specter (DPa.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representatives John Larson (D-Conn.) and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) introduced almost identical bills in the ...

In 2007, the state of New Jersey conducted its second experiment with taxpayer-funded political campaigns, often called “clean elections” by advocates of such programs

Supporters of campaign finance regulation regularly assert that contributions to political candidates need to be limited in order to reduce corruption by elected officials, and the lower the ...