The question before this Committee is whether and how, consistent with good public policy and the Constitution, to require enhanced disclosure for the political activities of tax exempt organizations.
Today, this Committee addresses the critically important subject of issue advocacy and citizen participation in politics and campaigns, another facet of campaign reform that has been a top priority for the Brennan Center. The central issue at this hearing
What comes through most strikingly from Shrink Missouri - and not only from the majority opinion - is the Court's profound concern about the state of our democracy. The Court was painfully aware that "[d]emocracy works 'only if the people have fait