On Jan. 21, 2010, the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case struck down the ban on corporate spending in federal elections and opened Pandora's Box.

The Supreme Court's decision played a pivotal role in the rise of Super PACs.

Super PACs are federally registered political committees that raise unlimited...

The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has changed the landscape of American politics.

The decision has brought enormous amounts of unlimited contributions and secret money back into our elections, the kind of political money that has resulted in corruption and scandals in the past and...

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court in a misguided and destructive decision ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the longstanding ban on corporate expenditures in federal campaigns was unconstitutional.

In reaching this decision, the Court unleashed a flood of unlimited contributions into federal elections through Super...

Based on recent published reports, we believe that both the Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, Restore our Future, and the Super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, Priorities USA Action, are illegal operations.

Democracy 21 wrote to the Justice Department twice last month expressing our concerns about...

The Super PAC disclosure reports being filed this week reveal an out-of-control and corrupt system that is doing enormous damage to our political system and to our democracy.

A relatively few super rich individuals and a number of corporations are making huge unlimited contributions to the Super PACs and are...

On January 21, 2010, two years ago, five Supreme Court Justices issued a radical decision in the Citizens United case that is now wreaking havoc on the 2012 elections. The Citizens United decision has done enormous damage to our political system and our democracy.

The Citizens United decision...

The Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case is wreaking havoc on the 2012 elections. The Court has opened the door wide to future scandals and corruption through its radical and indefensible decision.

The dangerous developments for the country caused by the decision as well as an explanation...

In a report issued today, Democracy 21 documented the serious questions that exist about the legality of the leading presidential candidate-specific Super PACs that are playing a major role in the 2012 presidential election.

The leading presidential candidate-specific Super PACs are serving as vehicles for candidates and donors...

In a letter sent last week to the IRS, Democracy 21, joined by the Campaign Legal Center, submitted additional information to the IRS to demonstrate that Americans Elect, the American Action Network and Crossroads GPS are not entitled to section 501(c)(4) tax status and therefore are not entitled...

The three Republican Commissioners on the six-member FEC have once again shown their disdain for the nation's campaign finance laws they are supposed to implement and enforce.

The three Republican Commissioners blocked an effort by Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) to initiate a rulemaking by the agency to replace fundamentally...

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama traveled to Osawatomie, Kansas to make a major speech on his economic policies.

According to today's Washington Post, President Obama went to Osawatomie to invoke Teddy Roosevelt and a speech he made there in 1910 that became known as Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" speech....

In a 3 to 3 decision Thursday, the FEC refused to give approval to the effort by American Crossroads to run ads "fully coordinated" with candidates and have the ads treated as ads that were not coordinated with the candidates under campaign finance laws.

This means that if American Crossroads...

According to this New York Times editorial,

For the first time, this campaign will be dominated by political action committees that exist solely to promote specific candidates. While a candidate's campaign is limited to $2,500 per election from each donor, the PACs can collect unlimited amounts, and they...

On October 28, 2011, American Crossroads, a federally registered political committee backed by Republican political operative Karl Rove, submitted an Advisory Opinion Request (AOR) to the FEC.

The AOR brazenly requested the Commission to find that ads by American Crossroads to promote candidates that would be "fully coordinated" with the...

American Crossroads is the brainchild of political operative Karl Rove.

On October 28, 2011, the Rove-inspired organization asked the FEC to declare that expenditures by American Crossroads for TV ads to promote certain candidates that would be "fully coordinated" with those candidates and that would even have those...

According to the BNA Money and Politics Report, "the Democratic and Republican parties have received $35.4 million -- about $17.7 million each -- in public funding to pay for next year's presidential nominating conventions, the Federal Election Commission announced Nov. 8."

It is more than ironic that at...

Americans Elect is an organization whose stated goal is "to nominate a presidential ticket that answers directly to voters -- not the political system."

To accomplish this goal, Americans Elect already has qualified on a number of state ballots as a political party in order to run a...

A column by Joe Nocera in the New York Times describes a proposal by Howard Schultz, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks, to boycott campaign donations to federal officeholders until they seriously address the nation's fiscal and economic problems.

Democracy 21 wholeheartedly supports the Schultz proposal to boycott campaign...

By a vote of 6-0, the Federal Election Commission ruled correctly today that federal officeholders and candidates, and national party officials, are prohibited by law from soliciting unlimited contributions for Super PACs, which spend money to influence federal elections.

The ruling came in the form of a response by the...

The Supreme Court today denied a request for the Court to review the decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Green Party v. Lenge that upheld the constitutionality of the provisions of the Connecticut public financing law for the financing of minor party candidates.

This is...