Protect Our Elections
-By Paul Blumenthal March 30, 2012- WASHINGTON -- On Friday evening, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling that could begin the process of revealing…
-By Tom Schoenberg and Jonathan D. Salant March 31, 2012- The U.S. Federal Election Commission overstepped its authority by allowing groups that give money for election advertising to withhold the…
March 30, 2012- The Republican party of Wisconsin will now run placeholder Democratic candidates in all scheduled recall elections, reports Wispolitics.com: Republicans will run “protest” or “fake” Dems in all…
-by Jane Mayer March 30, 2012- A new and highly aggressive multi-million-dollar anti-Obama ad campaign has started airing on television stations in eight key political swing states—but for now at…
-By Joe Holley March 28, 2012- A Travis County district court judge ruled this week that a Houston-based tea party group is not a nonprofit corporation as it claims, but…
-By Eric W. Dolan March 27, 2012- The New York Assembly’s Election Law Committee on Tuesday approved a resolution to call upon the United States Congress send to the states…
-By Dan Froomkin March 24, 2012- WASHINGTON -- The two most controversial campaign financing practices of the post-Citizens United era aren’t actually the Supreme Court’s fault. The court's conservative majority…
-By Dan Froomkin March 21, 2012- WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats are setting up a showdown with Republicans on the issue of unlimited secret campaign donations, proposing new rules that would…
-By Robin Bravender March 15, 2012- The AFL-CIO, the largest organized labor group in the United States, wants an immediate crackdown on super PACs. The union federation on Wednesday afternoon…
-By Ariel Edwards-Levy March 12, 2012- Former Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.) is suing over being denied the right to vote in Tennessee's Super Tuesday primary. Davis, whose name was erroneously…
March 5, 2012- Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported that it took them only a short time to break through the security functions of a pilot project for…
-By Matt Sledge March 13, 2012- Don't cry for the sugar daddies. Rick Santorum may be down and Rick Perry may be out, but the billionaires and millionaires who bet…
-By Ryan J. Reilly March 12, 2012- The federal government will not preclear a photo voter identification law signed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) because it would have a…