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Jun30
Barriers to Justice and Accountability: How the Supreme Court's Recent Rulings Will Affect Corporate Behavior
Public Campaign attended a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday morning: “Barriers to Justice and Accountability: How the Supreme Court's Recent Rulings Will Affect Corporate Behavior.” The hearing was scheduled in response to the distinct pattern of pro-corporate rulings issued by the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly the Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action suit that wasn’t allowed to proceed.
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Jun30
Clips Round-up for 6/30/11
Fair Elections/Campaign Finance
Where Campaign Finance Needs to Go Now
Public Campaign Action Fund Board Member Zephyr Teachout discusses the implications of the McComish case and the importance of small dollar matching funds going forward.
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Jun29
Clips Round-up for 6/29/11
McComish/Campaign Finance/EtcJun28Clips Round-up for 6/28/11
Other McComish stories:As you know, the Supreme Court released its decision yesterday throwing out the trigger fund provision of the Arizona Clean Elections Act. We have compiled a fairly extensive list of statements from organizations, elected officials, news, and other reactions to the decision. We'll continue to update it: http://publicampaign.org/mccomishnews.
- Arizona
- campaign finance
- Clips
- Common Cause
- Connecticut
- Fair Elections Now Act
- florida
- gop
- Harry Reid
- Koch Brothers
- maine
- maine clean elections
- matching funds
- McComish v. Bennett
- Nancy Pelosi
- New Jersey
- north carolina
- PACs
- President Obama
- public campaign
- Rod Blagojevich
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Wall Street
Jun27Clips Round-up for 6/27/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsThe Maine legislature ended without repealing gubernatorial Clean Elections.
Jun24Clips Round-up for 6/24/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsGarrett Epps writes of the Virginia court's decision to allow direct corporate contributions to candidates: "Judge Cacheris's opinion is a prime example of right-wing judicial aggressiveness and simple-minded constitutional mythology."
Jun23Clips Round-up for 6/23/11
Jun22Clips Round-up for 6/22/11
Campaign Finance/Fair ElectionsAnd news from New York: "Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced today the passage of legislation that provides for public financing of campaigns for the Office of the State Comptroller beginning in 2014.
Jun21Clips Round-up for 6/21/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"Stephen Colbert is assuring the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that the dollar bills he collected in exchange for handshakes outside of their building last month went to him and not the 'super PAC' he's hoping to form."
Jun20Clips Round-up for 6/20/11
Campaign Finance/Fair Elections"The FEC this week sent a letter demanding Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed nonprofit that pumped millions of dollars in anonymous donations into last year's Congressional campaigns, disclose its contributors. The request appears unlikely to be honored but it could signal an effort to tighten regulations on controversial third-party groups."