Protect Our Elections
A U.S. Court of Appeals panel reverses a decision requiring groups that run election-related TV ads to reveal their donors. Conservative groups spending heavily in the 2012 campaign cheer the…
September 18, 2012- In a potentially significant victory for Democrats, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a lower court's decision to uphold the states's restrictive new voter ID law on Tuesday,…
Conservative Groups Focus on Registration in Swing States -By Sthepanie Saul September 16, 2012- It might as well be Harry Potter’s invisible Knight Bus, because no one can prove it…
Because of partisan gridlock in Washington, the Supreme Court has become the most powerful and outspoken branch of government – decisions they make shape our democracy’s fate for generations to…
-By Paul Blumenthal September 13, 2012- WASHINGTON -- All eyes are fixed on the money race between President Barack Obama, Republican nominee Mitt Romney and the outside groups cheering them…
-By J.F. September 11, 2012- POLITICO led this morning with a piece arguing that Mitt Romney's clay feet on the subject of national security threaten to turn him into John…
-By Scott Keyes September 7, 2012- After previously trying to restrict early voting, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) today reversed course on his decision to block county boards…
Republicans going 'whole nine yards' to suppress vote in OH, says former President in advance of DNC speech -By Brad Freidman September 5, 2012- "Do you really want to live…
The GOP's war on voting rights isn't new. It harks back to past efforts to alter the political process. -By: Sherrilyn A. Ifill September 4, 2012- In states from Florida…
But stops short of a call to end 'corporate personhood'... -By Ernest A Canning September 2, 2012- "I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional amendment process to…
-By Ian Millhiser August 31, 2012- Last month, President Obama’s reelection campaign filed a lawsuit claiming that a recently enacted Ohio law eliminating early voting in the three days before…
-By Dan Froomkin August 31, 2012- WASHINGTON -- A new report from Congress' nonpartisan research arm suggests that the Internal Revenue Service won't have much patience with the argument from…
-By Sheelah Kolhatkar August 31, 2012- On the final morning of the Republican National Convention, Karl Rove took the stage at the Tampa Club to provide an exclusive breakfast briefing…