We're convinced that the Senate's power to adopt its own rules is limited to rules that do not conflict with the Constitutio
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012
By Paul AbowdiWatch NewsThe American Legislative Exchange Council, which backs free-market legislation in the states, has been controversial in part...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.15.2012
WASHINGTON -- Would-be Dream Act beneficiaries aren't just angry that the bill failed in the Senate in 2010: Some also are joining a lawsuit seeking a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- When the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) first started facing public scrutiny about its extraordinary ability to turn "mode...
The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012
By Paul AbowdiWatch NewsThis spring has brought constant controversy for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the conservative group of legisl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.26.2012
WASHINGTON -- In recent weeks, the world of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been turned inside out, as progressives have raised a...
AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 04.23.2012
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Open government advocates accused a conservative legislative group Monday of falsely claiming tax-exempt status while doing wid...
Daniel Gross | Posted 04.23.2012
When exposed to the light, the NRA's agenda becomes toxic. And Americans want nothing to do with those who conspire to bring about the gun lobby's dangerous "guns everywhere" vision they saw played out that February night in Sanford, Florida.
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.08.2012
Jocelyn Benson wants to bring greater transparency to political campaigns and lobbying efforts in Michigan, and the Wayne State law professor kicked o...
Bill Quigley | Posted 04.07.2012
The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 03.22.2012
The anniversary of the ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC is an opportunity to review how this transformative decision was reached -- the perfect storm of politicized jurisprudence, corporate entitlement and a narrowly tilted bench.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- What do you do when people are growing increasingly angry about the influence of money on the political system -- but that very same pol...
Mark Green | Posted 02.13.2012
Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact the 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. The 99% can stop the privatization of government.
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.06.2011
On Tuesday, Los Angeles could become the first city to officially endorse amending the United States Constitution to state that only human beings, not...
Bob Edgar | Posted 01.30.2012
His career has periodically mixed politics with academics, so it's no surprise that Newt Gingrich is now giving official Washington a lesson on the absurd weakness of our lobbying laws.
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) is turning up the heat on Justice Clarence Thomas based on new information that builds upon previous repo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 01.03.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been criticized before for failing to live up to promises made in his 2008 campaign on such issues as pharmac...
Wendy Block | Posted 09.27.2011
When I hear that AT&T and Verizon are key players with other multinationals and Republican legislators in a so-far obscure group that advances corporate interests and undermines ours, my thoughts turn...shall we say, vehement.
Kelly Maher | Posted 08.29.2011
A buddy and I headed up to Avon, Colo., on Sunday to check out ProgressNow and the self-described "non-partisan" group Common Cause, protesting the Ko...
Wade Norris | Posted 08.17.2011
Sec. of State Scott Gessler has decided that a political committee for efforts like personhood amendments or anti-labor laws can spend up to $5,000 without reporting who they are or where they came from.
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.07.2011
There are many fronts in the battle to rein in unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns. One involves using shareholder groups to pressure ...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011
Even if he is mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers... They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a ...
Cliff Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011
While he doesn't seem to even want to participate in his day job, Thomas certainly does engage in the kind of partisan politicking that is not only unseemly, but sets a terrible precedent.
Politico | Chris Frates | Posted 05.25.2011
The government watchdog group Common Cause called on the White House Thursday to disclose all of its meetings with lobbyists - a policy shift the Whit...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Oil barons Charles and David Koch held their annual billionaires' summit in Palm Springs on Sunday, Na...
Bob Edgar | Posted 05.22.2012