Supreme Court


New Polling Exposes Voter Anger
Submitted by Monica Rober on Tue, 02/09/2010 - 10:33am.
Citizens United ruling fuels voter ire: new bipartisan polling reveals voters' anger with special interest influence in Washington. Politico reports that a whopping 79% of respondents think that Congress is controlled by those who finance their campaigns.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Elections Need Public Funding
Submitted by Monica Rober on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 9:12am.
An editorial in The Post-Crescent asserts that it's time for judicial public financing in Wisconsin.
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State Supreme Court Candidates Spending Millions
Submitted by Burney Simpson on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 9:41am.
Spending on TV ads reaches nearly $8 million this election cycle as top court candidates seek to reach voters.
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Who's Looking Out for the Little Guys?
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 4:04pm.
Adam Bonin, an election law expert, Philadelpia resident, and supporter of Clean Elections writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the iniquities our big donor-dependent campaign finance system creates and how the recent spate of rulings by the Supreme Court are short-sighted and threaten valuable laws that curtail big money's influence
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Best Option
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 3:47pm.
Eliza Newlin Carney at the National Journal gets opinions from around the campaign finance reform community about what effect the recent Supreme Court rulings on political advertising and the Millionaire's Amendment will have on other types of campaign finance laws. While the general view is that it will have negative consequences for many types of regulatory laws, the news is not all bad for public financing programs.
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Speak Not So Softly
Submitted by Katie Schlieper on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 12:13pm.
Jeff Milchen of Reclaim Democracy attacks the foundations of both the Buckley v. Valeo decision, and the most recent ruling from the Supreme Court building on the Buckley precedent in this op-ed for the Baltimore Sun that makes a compelling argument about the dangers of protecting money's "speech" role in elections ahead of actual speech.
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