Tag: Citizens United

One of the things I’ve long wondered about all those shady third-party political action groups that have sprung up in the wake of Citizens United is where exactly they get their funding from. It’s no secret billionaires like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson have spent millions of dollars to…

Adam Liptak in The New York Times: The better approach, Justice Stevens said, would be to allow the government to regulate campaign speech as moderators regulated the recent debates among the Republican presidential candidates. “Both the candidates and the audience would surely have thought the value of the debate to…

This looks like a great opportunity to learn how we citizens can fight back against Citizens United… DFA Live with Russ Feingold and Steve Bullock Join Sen. Russ Feingold and MT Attorney General Steve Bullock on DFA Live to learn how you can get your state Attorney General in the…

In a brief filed on Tuesday in the Fourth Circuit, the Republican National Committee argues that the federal ban on corporate donations is unconstitutional in large part because it applies across the board to all corporations. As noted by Ian Millhiser of Think Progress, if a court did accept the…

From my email inbox comes this video from Negin Farsad and the Vaguely Qualified Productions team, who are hoping to inject some comedy into the fight against Citizens United with a video starring Katrina vanden Heuvel (Editor/Publisher of The Nation), Cenk Uygur (Host, Current TV’s Young Turks), Ben & Jerry…

In honor of the anniversary of the decision issued by the United States Supreme Court in the case Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, here’s a video explaining the impact of that decision on our elections. Happy anniversary!

I know we are in the midst of a major election season in Wisconsin, not only the governors race which pits the mayor of Milwaukee against the county executive who after bankrupting Milwaukee County, feels he deserves a promotion. We also have probably the highest profile Senatorial election in the…

When the current activist Supreme Court overstepped their bounds and ruled on the citizens united case, the the umpire John Roberts. did not just call balls and strikes, he changed the complete rules of the game(and lied under oath, but thats another post). Now that the cat is out of…