News Without Transparency – DEA FOIA rejections have increased 114 percent since end of Bush administration FOIA.gov can’t improve federal... View Article
Continue readingNewspapers across the country endorse the DISCLOSE Act
So far in 2012, more than 30 newspaper editorial boards from coast to coast have endorsed the DISCLOSE Act. Explore... View Article
Continue reading2Day in #OpenGov 7/16/2012
NEWS ROUNDUP: DISCLOSE 2012 DISCLOSE Act to be voted on in Senate today: At 5:30 p.m. today, the Senate will... View Article
Continue readingThe black hole of political disclosure
Our Sunlight Foundation colleague, Lee Drutman, has written elsewhere about the amount of dark money -- political donations that come without donors attached -- flowing into this year's campaign. But what about the conduits? As the Senate debates the DISCLOSE Act this week, a measure that would take modest steps towards adding a little transparency back into the campaign finance system, it's worth taking a look at the entities that are taking advantage of the loopholes that allow them to avoid disclosing -- sometimes just donors, sometimes just about everything.
The groups run the gamut from long established organizations with a ...
Continue readingMcCain campaigns for Romney, transparency or not
Political irony: That's probably the best definition for what happened Monday when when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., probably the only GOP lawmaker to express interest in the Disclose Act, rallied Michigan on behalf of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has turned his back on requests to be more open with his campaign finance. 
McCain is the father of modern campaign finance reform. He was the coauthor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, popularly known as the McCain-Feingold Act. And he hasn't been shy about criticizing this year's conduits for big money, even if it ...
Continue readingWhat You Should Know About the DISCLOSE Act Part 5: What Can I Do?
Our democracy is threatened. Not by partisanship run rampant, not by an electorate that stays home, (although those are big... View Article
Continue readingThese Senators Were For Disclosure Before They Were Against It
Later today, the Senate is expected to vote along party lines to deny cloture to the DISCLOSE Act. Republicans have... View Article
Continue readingWhat You Should Know About the DISCLOSE Act Part 4: Is the DISCLOSE Act Constitutional?
This evening, the Senate will vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a bill that would shine a light on the dark... View Article
Continue readingState Secrets Protection Act — Balancing Judicial Review and National Security
By Policy Intern Madeline Magnuson. How courts balance their roles as the arbiter of disputes against the need to protect... View Article
Continue readingDark money in the 2012 elections (so far)
As the Senate this week takes up the DISCLOSE Act, a bill that Sunlight and other open government groups are... View Article
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