Analysis & Commentary
Democracy
An Independent Counsel We Can Live Without
Atty. Gen. Janet Reno seems to be torn over a choice between two investigations into campaign finance abuses in the 1996 presidential elections.
– 09/15/98
Blaming the Judge
– 09/01/98
Congress Fiddles While Parties Burn Campaign Finance Laws
While Democrats and Republicans on Capital Hill debate the merits of campaign finance reform, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party are busy at work in federal court seeking to undermine the last remaining vestiges of federal cam
– 06/29/98
Free TV Speech for Candidates
We own the airwaves. We, the public. Not GE, not Disney, not Westinghouse, and not Rupert Murdoch. But we lend them our airwaves for free, as trustees, in return for a pledge to serve the public interest.
– 06/08/98
The Incumbents’ Case for (Some) Campaign Finance Reform
The conventional wisdom is that genuine campaign finance reform is again doomed to defeat in the upcoming weeks, a victim of incumbents’ sense that the current rules serve their needs well.
– 05/25/98
The Doolittle/Delay Distortions of First Amendment Limits on Campaign Finance Reform
Clearing up John Doolittle and Tom DeLay’s misleading constitutional pronouncements on campaign finance reform.
Authored by: E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Deborah Goldberg
– 05/01/98
How Was Campaign-Finance Reform Killed? By Twisting What the High Court Said
Like the cock of the walk, Senator Mitch McConnell strutted across the Senate floor, preening his new First Amendment feathers and pecking to death the latest (and most modest) of campaign finance reforms set before that body.
– 04/27/98
Senators: Look to the Teamsters
The Senate killed campaign finance reform last week. Chairman Fred Thompson has the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee once again looking for fund-raising misdeeds. Now the committee is looking into the relationship between the Teamsters and the Democr
– 10/13/97
Campaign Reform: The Hidden Killers
Prominent members of Congress recently executed a brilliant three-step strategy for killing campaign finance reform, all the while disguising themselves as reformers.
– 05/05/97
Clean and Constitutional
Measures to reform the way we finance political campaigns are dropping like flies. Buckley v. Valeo, the landmark Supreme Court case that occupies the field of campaign finance reform, has been invoked by courts at all levels to frustrate popular r
– 05/01/97