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McCutcheon: The People Strike Back to Have a Voice in Elections
While the US Supreme Court mulls lifting overall limits to campaign contributions in the McCutcheon case, Seattle citizens go to the polls Tuesday over reforming their elections with publicly …
Interview: Texan Julia Trigg Crawford’s Valiant Effort to Stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline
Once she jumped into the ring, she found she was fighting not just for herself, but for all American property owners and the planet too.
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Worse Than Watergate
A new Supreme Court campaign finance case could unleash unprecedented political corruption.
Judge Recants Own Decision on GOP Polling Place Photo ID Law Later Upheld by SCOTUS
The 7th circuit court judge who wrote the majority opinion in the landmark Crawford v. Marion County Election Board case, has now admitted he got it wrong!
“Five Hundred People Will Control American Democracy” If Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law
On Tuesday, justices heard arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, which has been referred to as “the next Citizens United.”
Money, Politics and the Roberts Court: Seventh Game of The Court’s Plutocrat Series
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what has become its annual dismantling of campaign finance law.
Did Scalia Really Say That? “Citizens United” Lurks Behind Supreme Court’s Latest Money-in-Politics Case
It appears unlikely that the aggregate limits will survive in their current form.
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Mitch McConnell Wants America to Be an Oligarchy
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the single most important campaign finance case since Citizens United.
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Supreme Court Hears GOP Challenge to Political Donation Limits
On Tuesday, the high court will hear oral arguments in a case that campaign finance reformers are calling
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Supreme Court to Inspect Neutrality Agreements
If the Supreme Court outlaws neutrality agreements, it will give Hyatt and many other employers a reason to renege on unions' hard-won pacts.