This morning the Supreme Court decided two campaign finance cases consolidated under Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett. Writing for a narrow but familiar 5-4 majority—which included Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito—Chief Justice John Roberts overruled the Ninth Circuit and struck down Arizona’s Citizens Clean Elections Act.
In a Guest Commentary piece in the Detroit Free Press, former Supreme Court Justice O’Connor argued against processes in which
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division came under fire during the Bush Administration for stacking attorney positions with conservative lawyers
The National Institute on Money in State Politics published a report this week that breaks down over a quarter-million dollars
Dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, Erwin Cherminsky, and associate professor of law at Hofstra,
Just weeks after Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin pushed through his plan to cut off the collective bargaining rights of
The Supreme Court recently heard a pair of challenges to an Arizona law that provides public financing for candidates who
Today the Supreme Court hears the most recent campaign-finance challenge, the first since ruling in 2010’s Citizens United v. Federal
Just over two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Caperton v. Massey, a case involving the
As usual when right-wing politicians want to block a strongly Democratic voting bloc from exercising their right to vote, Republicans in New Hampshire and elsewhere are trotting out the tired excuse of preventing fraud to support new bills that will curtail the ability of students, African-Americans, and other core Democratic groups from voting.
MSNBC Host Keith Olbermann was suspended on Friday after it was reported that he made donations to Democratic political campaigns.
