Montana Voters Overwhelmingly Said That Corporations Aren't People
A whopping 75 percent of Montana's voters approved an initiative Tuesday stating corporations are not people.Montana voters specifically said "corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights...
View ArticleSamuel Alito Quoted Nicole Richie While Speaking To A Crowd Of Conservatives
Justice Samuel Alito says some people have a double standard when it comes to corporations' free speech rights, the Blog of the Legal Times reported Friday.Alito made that observation while defending...
View ArticleA Former New York Times Lawyer Just Ripped Into The Paper's Editorial Board
First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams laid into The New York Times yesterday for attacking the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United decision.Abrams wrote a letter to the editor responding to a...
View ArticleThe 'Non-Profit' Group That Threw Millions At The California Election Has...
In late October and early November, a dramatic legal battle played out in California between the state’s campaign finance watchdog and a little-known Arizona non-profit named Americans for Responsible...
View ArticleDon't Believe For An Instant That Billionaire Political Investors Have Given Up
I keep hearing that the billionaires and big corporations that poured all that money into the 2012 election learned their lesson. They lost their shirts and won’t do it again.Don’t believe that for an...
View ArticleThe Courts Are Going To Decide Whether Corporations Have A Right To...
The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to block the part of Obamacare that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for birth control.Hobby Lobby Inc., an arts and crafts chain, objected that...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Won't Let Corporations Line Politicians' Pockets
The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case that could give rich people more influence over politics.But the justices signaled Monday morning that they want to keep some limits on how much...
View ArticleSeveral Internet Pioneers Are Forming A SuperPAC To End Big Money's Role In...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A group of influential Internet moguls aim to fix what they refer to as the "big money problem" in Washington politics by, well, raising cash.Forming a Super Political Action...
View ArticleThe indictment of Senator Menendez challenges everything about 'Citizens United'
In the Supreme Court's landmark 2010 case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , the court declared that corporate independent political expenditures are protected free speech under the First...
View ArticleIRS grants nonprofit status to Karl Rove's 'dark money' group — now no one...
Donors to the nonprofit group Crossroads GPS, founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, no longer have to worry about their identities being disclosed. After a five-year wait, the IRS has approved...
View ArticleThese are the Supreme Court cases Republicans are terrified Merrick Garland...
Congressional Republicans’ reluctance to even consider, much less vote on, President Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia is infuriating to...
View ArticleA judge is making Citizens United disclose donor information
NEW YORK (AP) — A nonprofit conservative organization advocating for less government must reveal information about major donors to the state's attorney general if it wants to solicit money in the...
View ArticleDonald Trump just hired the man behind Citizens United to serve as deputy...
With a little over two months left before the general election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to add to his campaign staff. On Thursday Trump announced that former Citizens...
View ArticleA Democrat no one's heard of just raised triple the amount Ted Cruz did,...
Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who's hoping to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz, has raised triple the amount that Cruz has this year, despite banning all PAC money from his campaign. O'Rourke and campaign finance...
View ArticleMontana is taking on 'dark money' with a new lawsuit against the Trump...
The state of Montana is filing a lawsuit seeking to reinstate a rule that requires dark-money groups to report their largest donors to tax authorities.The lawsuit is in response to the IRS'...
View ArticleTim Cook says that Apple donates $0 to political candidates and that he...
Apple, as a company, does not donate any money to political candidates,CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday.He also said he doesn't believe that political action committee (PACs) should exist. PACs allow...
View ArticleTrump's former deputy campaign manager reportedly scammed elderly voters who...
David Bossie, a former Trump deputy campaign manager, has raised millions of dollars by falsely claiming that his group, the Presidential Coalition, was spending that money for pro-Trump conservative...
View ArticleBiden's 'dark' side: How Democrats are embracing secret money and the...
Summary List PlacementDemocrats including Joe Biden have railed against dark money but are now embracing such funds — whose original source is unclear — in a race to oust President Donald...
View ArticleDemocrats are plotting the death — and rebirth — of a hamstrung Federal...
Summary List PlacementHaving won two runoff Senate elections in Georgia, Democrats are about to realize the power scenario of which they've long dreamt: Joe Biden in the White House and liberals...
View ArticleCongress needs to seize the moment, end the influence of Big Money, and save...
Summary List PlacementIn the month since the violent attack on the US Capitol, many corporations and powerful organizations have tried to distance themselves from the lawmakers involved in Donald...
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