Expert Brief

The high court’s ruling in the Arizona public financing case is no win for free speech. It actually stifles speech by creating a new right to speak without response.

An Associated Press investigation uncovered numerous examples of racial profiling by the NYPD. The City Council should immediately undertake a full, public accounting of the NYPD’s intelligence activities and set up a system for ongoing oversight of these activities.

This report summarizes some of the reasons beyond the anti-corruption interest that public financing is worth instituting.

Nearly two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Caperton v. Massey, a majority of state courts have failed to adopt any recusal reform measures that respond to the threats identified in that case.