Protect Our Elections
December 15, 2010- Despite being tasked with monitoring an election cycle in which $4 billion was spent, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) obtained penalties in only 34 cases, 86 percent…
Decmeber 19, 2010- Former Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor recently appeared to come to a similar conclusion about the majority decision reached by their former…
December 18, 2010- Almost 40 years ago, a Virginia lawyer named Lewis F. Powell Jr. warned that the nation’s free enterprise system was under attack. He urged the U.S. Chamber…
December 10, 2010- Public Advocate Bill de Blasio today released a comprehensive report analyzing the broad impact of U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in the 2010 election cycle. The…
December 13, 2010- Mayor Bloomberg today released a report showing that nonpartisan reforms to the redistricting process can increase the competitiveness of legislative elections at the state and federal level.…
Most went for a war on the airwaves, consultants say, making TV stations big winners. November 27, 2010- Anti-incumbent anger and "tea party" conservatives may have set the tone for…
Former U.S. House majority leader faces up to life in prison November 24, 2010- Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — once one of the most powerful and feared…
November 23, 2010: By a double-digit margin, voters want Congress to amend the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United that allows unlimited corporate spending on elections,…
November 20, 2010- Freshman Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Mich.) blamed an influx of corporate and union money thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling for his loss to former Republican…
November 8, 2010: By the time voters went to the polls last week, outside groups had spent more than $454 million to influence campaigns. But there's little evidence that all…
Nov. 8, 2010- Republican Senator-elect Mark Kirk may help push through a campaign-finance transparency bill opposed by Republican leaders during the lame-duck session. Kirk defeated Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias for…
November 8, 2010: Last week, big lies and big money spoke so loudly and with such influence that our political system was dramatically changed for the time being. Four billion…
Perhaps no other U.S. Supreme Court decision has had as much impact on an election in modern times as the Citizens United ruling did this year. The court case, which…
November 2, 2010: In elections past, a good indicator of whether a candidate would win was to look at how much money they had raised: the more money, the better…
By Micheal Luo AND Griff Palmer- November 4, 2010- After all the talk about the impact of independent groups on this year’s midterm elections, the debate over at least one…