Certain American values transcend partisan divisions. One is that money should not influence the courts. But with record sums pouring into judicial elections, the ideal of due process is giving way to a perception of pay-to-play justice...

In honor of Sunshine Week, there's a new tool for those of us who want to track campaign finance data...

What exactly can a politician in New York do with campaign funds? Sadly, he or she can do a lot that isn’t related to campaigning for office...

It may be an overstatement to refer to any state constitutional question as "interesting" in the wake of a nationally publicized sex scandal, but we believe there are genuinely interesting issues of succession following Eliot Spitzer's resignation...