Day: April 11, 2008

West Virginia Case Moves Forward

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 11, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, West Virginia

The Charleston Gazette reports on the latest in the Center for Individual Freedom’s case challenging some of West Virginia’s campaign finance laws.

$3 Checkoff Mystery Deepens

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 11, 2008
Categories In FEC

I previously noted that some of Obama’s tax returns showed that he failed to indicate that he wanted $3 to go to public funding of presidential campaigns. Today we learned: Asked whether he felt the current system of funding campaigns through public money was antiquated, Obama admitted, “It is creaky, and needs to be reformed […]

Speechnow.org Hearing

Later today, the CCP Blog should have reports on today’s hearing in the Speechnow.org case. SpeechNow.org is a completely independent group of individual citizens, not a PAC or a party. It is simply Americans talking to Americans about an issue of vital public importance—a right that is fully protected by the First Amendment. In […]