How Roberts Orchestrated Citizens United
When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest impo...
When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was first argued before the Supreme Court, on March 24, 2009, it seemed like a case of modest impo...
Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.16.2012
Talk is cheap. In this business you get what you pay for in blood, toil, sweat, tears, passion, idealism, activism, commitment and, yes, you better believe it, in money.
Fred Wertheimer | Posted 08.08.2011
Judge Cacheris's idea that the Citizens United decision somehow "silently" overruled the Beaumont decision upholding the constitutionality of the corporate contribution ban is meritless.
The Washington Post | T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011
A year after the Supreme Court's landmark decision easing campaign spending restrictions for corporations and interest groups, the Federal Election Co...
Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011
This week, the US Office of Special Counsel released a long overdue report concluding that George W. Bush's White House sent officials off on electioneering trips using taxpayer money, in the lead-up to the 2006 midterm elections.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011
Democrats hoping to blunt the impact of a recent Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate spending on campaign advertisements can now call ...
Bill de Blasio | Posted 05.25.2011
After Citizens United, we need to use every available avenue to hold corporations and their boards of directors accountable for their political spending.
Bill Moyers | Posted 05.25.2011
Our government is not broken; it's been bought out from under us. On the right and the left and smack across the vast middle, more and more Americans doubt representative democracy can survive the corruption of money.
Adam McKay | Posted 05.25.2011
What the Supreme Court has done is nothing short of a violent coup for the corporations to seize control of our government. They have betrayed the very idea of our nation.
Posted 05.25.2011
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on cam...
The New Yorker | Posted 05.14.2012