When the Citizens United ruling came down last year I spent a great deal of time explaining the specifics of... View Article
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The Federal Election Commission marked this one-year anniversary of the Citizens United case by failing to do anything to provide... View Article
Continue readingFollowing the Activity One Year After Citizens United
This Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court decision. We here at Sunlight recognize... View Article
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Friday marks the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision giving corporations the right to make unlimited... View Article
Continue readingTom DeLay looks to Citizens United for a bailout
The Citizens United Supreme Court ruling may have not only opened a spigot of corporate money in our elections, it... View Article
Continue readingCitizens United ROI
While this Los Angeles Times article focuses more on the departure of Sen. Russ Feingold and what that means for... View Article
Continue readingTax laws may result in more advertising from post-Citizens United groups in 2011
One week ago, immediately prior to the votes on the tax cut deal reached between President Barack Obama and congressional... View Article
Continue readingDemocratic activists, donors plan separate paths for disclosed and undisclosed money in 2012 election
Just announced chairwoman of Democratic Super PAC American Bridge Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: “American democracy has to be based on transparency,... View Article
Continue readingSunlight Urges Congress to Pass Streamlined DISCLOSE Act During Lame Duck
Because the Senate failed to pass the DISCLOSE Act before the 2010 election, American voters do not know the full... View Article
Continue readingThe Citizens United Effect: 40 percent of outside money made possible by Supreme Court ruling
In 2002 former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once flippantly described connections between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda terrorists by saying,... View Article
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