Roll Call: Public Funds Dwindle for 2012 Campaigns
By Amanda Becker Roll Call Staff The federal program providing public money to presidential campaigns is dying. Going into […]
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Brief Filed in Van Hollen Lawsuit Challenging FEC Regulation That Eviscerated the Contribution Disclosure Requirements for Electioneering Ads
|-, Archive |by DianeRepresentative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) filed a brief last Friday with the federal district court in Washington, DC in a lawsuit he filed in April […]
Washington Post Column by E.J. Dionne: The Supreme Court’s continuing defense of the powerful
|-, Archive |by DianeThe United States Supreme Court now sees its central task as comforting the already comfortable and afflicting those already afflicted. If you are a large […]
FEC Rules Correctly Today that Federal Officeholders and Candidates, and National Party Officials, Cannot Solicit Unlimited Contributions for Super PACs
|-, Archive |by DianeStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer By a vote of 6-0, the Federal Election Commission ruled correctly today that federal officeholders and candidates, and […]
FEC Hearing Thursday on Advisory Opinion Request Regarding Legality of Federal Officeholders and Candidates Raising Unlimited Contributions for Super PACs
|-, Archive |by DianeOn May 19, 2009, Majority PAC and House Majority PAC, two Super PACs established to raise unlimited contributions and make independent expenditures in support of […]
Supreme Court Today Denies Review of Second Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Upholding the Constitutionality of the Connecticut Public Financing Law
|-, Archive |by DianeThe Supreme Court today denied a request for the Court to review the decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Green Party v. […]
Democracy 21 Attacks Misguided Supreme Court Decision Today on Arizona Public Financing Law; Other Forms of Public Financing Laws Remain Intact and Unaffected by Decision
|-, Archive |by DianeStatement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer In another seriously misguided campaign finance decision, the Supreme Court today by a 5 to 4 vote has […]
Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer on Federal Judge’s “New” Misguided Decision to Overturn the Ban on Corporate Contributions
|-, Archive |by DianeToday, a federal district court judge in Alexandria,Virginia reaffirmed an opinion he issued on May 26, 2011 that held unconstitutional the 100 year old ban […]
Federal Officeholder and Candidate Fundraising for Super PACs Clearly Illegal: Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 Submit Comments to FEC
|-, Archive |by DianeToday, the Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) clearly outlining that it is illegal for federal officeholders […]
FEC Urged to Deny Stephen Colbert’s Request to Expand ‘Press Exemption’ in Comments Filed by Campaign Legal Center & Democracy 21
|-, Archive |by DianeThe Campaign Legal Center[1], together with Democracy 21, today urged the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to deny a request by comedian Stephen Colbert to significantly […]
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