Center for Competitive Politics
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This post is in response to Slate Columnist Dahlia Lithwick’s column ‘Colbert v. the Court’ Link to Article One reason Ms. Lithwick doesn’t touch on, as to why the Supreme Court “never had a chance,” is the coverage by the press – herself included – which has generally been biased, uninformed, incomplete, or some combination of [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized, Colbert, Court, First Amendment, Press, Supreme Court
The Weekly Standard asks a very interesting question in a post that appeared yesterday regarding Stephen Colbert’s assertion that Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS, a 501c(4) group, was “laundering money” by funneling what they raised to related super PAC American Crossroads. Unfortunately, as the piece makes clear, Colbert was wrong about that relationship and had to [...]
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Now that Tuesday’s FEC disclosure deadline has come and gone, there is renewed focus on where Super PACs obtain their funding. In an article for ABC News (Meet the Companies Behind the Super PACs), Chris Good collected information about the largest donors and came to a conclusion sure to surprise those of us who believe [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Featured Content, End of Democracy, First Amendment, koch, super PAC, super PACs
Today’s the big day, when all the super PACs reveal where they get the money to create ads that, according to an AP piece that’s been picked up by everyone from The Washington Post to Time Magazine, “have pummeled Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and others for the past two months by spending millions of dollars [...]
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Filed Under: Blog, Featured Content
CSPAN: Super Political Action Committees Panelists talked about the influence of “Super PACS” on the 2012 elections and beyond. Per the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, independent expenditure-only committees, “Super PACS,” may may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, associations and individuals to spend unlimited sums in [...]
So out in Massachusetts, Senator Scott Brown (R. Ma.) and his likely challenger, Elizabeth (“How dare you use our roads to ship your goods to us”) Warren have agreed on a pledge “banning third-party involvement in race,” as the Boston Globe put it. According to the Globe, Pro-Warren Super PACs have been bashing Senator Brown [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Political Committees & 527s, Super PACs, Massachusetts
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Today, you will hear a lot about the so-called corrosive [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Featured Content, First Amendment, Issue Advocacy, Press, Super PACs, anniversary, Citizens United, Stephen Colbert, super PACs, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Our friends at the Institute for Justice scored a major victory today, winning legal recognition that limiting contributions to recall efforts is unconstitutional. CCP authored an amicus brief in the case, arguing that the state of Washington’s attempt to paint recall efforts as potentially corrupting was misguided. The Ninth Circuit agreed, affirming a lower court [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Contribution, Contribution limits, Farris, FEC, First Amendment
Last night, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show continued their on-going gag involving the “Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC”. We’ve embedded the clip below, where Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (with call-in legal advice from former FEC Commissioner Trevor Potter) get as close to the line of “not coordinating” as humanly [...]
Filed Under: Blog, Coordination, Disclosure, Featured Content, Independent Speech, Colbert, coordination, Stewart, super PAC, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming