Democracy Deficit: A Modest Proposal For The US Senate
At Vox.com this weekend, Dylan Matthews took note of the huge disparity in November election totals for the US Senate. Despite winning control of that body with a majority, Republican…
Unmasking The Truth Behind The Right Wing Spin.
At Vox.com this weekend, Dylan Matthews took note of the huge disparity in November election totals for the US Senate. Despite winning control of that body with a majority, Republican…
Video: Ezra Klein of Vox.com interviews Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig about the dark money challenge to democracy The United States Senate voted 79-18 yesterday to proceed to debate on a constitutional amendment…
Tim Kuhner, associate professor of law at Georgia State University writes how the U.S. Supreme Court has used economic ideology to strike down limits on money in politics in his…
An American law professor told senators on Tuesday that outlawing prostitution was a violation of the First Amendment if spending money was a form of free speech. “Your other point…
David Weigel, who attended the Republican Leadership Conference last week, reports that the conservative movement is already getting behind the oligarchs as they push back against efforts to reverse the effects of Citizens…
Federal District Court Judge Rudolph Randa, who recently ruled that the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v FEC decision invalidated a Wisconsin John Doe investigation into illegal campaign coordination, is a frequent…
In a totally expected turn of events, the Republican National Committee on Friday sued the Federal Election Commission in an effort to raise unlimited cash just like super PACs do.…
Conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza failed to win dismissal of his federal charges for using straw donors to exceed campaign donation limits yesterday. D’Souza’s attorney argued that the recent McCutcheon decision by…
Shane Goldmacher at the National Journal says that the lines of division between candidates and super PACs have gotten so blurred, Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is shopping a…
Not content with legalizing political bribery, ‘super PAC’ lawyer Dan Backer is trying to draft Sarah Palin to run for the United States Senate against incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. In…