Zephyr Teachout, a Duke Law professor, has this interesting and timely piece on lobbying reform in Democracy, A Journal of Ideas (free registration required). Some excerpts: Lobbying distorts American democracy by introducing a pay-to-play scale to the public’s ability to petition the government. It turns our government from a fundamentally public-facing entity to a private-facing […]
Category: Const Law Issues
Google and Free Speech
Google gets the full Sunday Magazine treatment from The Times. Today the Web might seem like a free-speech panacea: it has given anyone with Internet access the potential to reach a global audience. But though technology enthusiasts often celebrate the raucous explosion of Web speech, there is less focus on how the Internet is actually […]
Lawsuits Challenging BCRA
Eliza Carney covers some recent lawsuits challenging key provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.