Experts say the U.S. Supreme Court ruling ushered in an era of unprecedented spending on elections by ultra-wealthy special ...

For good-government supporters, it’s a somber milestone. The 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, they say, vastly expanded the role of big money in politics and ...

“Once upon a time, in a land far away,” begins most fairy tales. For the purposes of this piece, the “land far away,” today, ...

Fifty years ago, after President Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace over the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Congress passed ...

Today the Brennan Center published a study by the journalist Anna Massoglia. She found that dark money groups spent almost $2 ...

The 2024 federal election cycle was the most secretive since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. Dark money groups, nonprofits and shell companies that spend on elections without ...

Reports of Donald Trump’s new flying palace — a luxury jet gifted by Qatar — are all over the news. A foreign government ...

In ever City municipal election since 1989, the city Campaign Finance Board tries to protect its rules and a level playing ...

A top PG&E executive helped run San Jose City Council candidate Gabby Chavez-Lopez’s campaign for this year’s District 3 ...

The Court could follow the timeline from Citizens United v. FEC. Recall that case was initially argued in March 2009. Malcolm Stewart (infamously) said that the government could ban books.

The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never ...

SHEBOYGAN – State Rep. Joe Sheehan, D-Sheboygan, will host two town hall meetings at Mead Public Library this month. The first will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 19 and the second from 6 to 7:30 ...