Category: Courts & Cases

Political professionals’ view of Citizens United

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 13, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

This month’s edition of Politics has a few articles on Citizens United and its impact on professional politics.

Citizens United legislative resources

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 11, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases, State Issues

A few updates on legislative proposals post-Citizens United. Today, Craig Holman supports The Shareholder Protection Act here. An OpenCongress collection of material related to legislative and policy proposals post-Citizens United is available here. For state legislation, check the National Conference of State Legislatures Citizens United page here. There seems to be some private legal action […]

Granny D Haddock, 100

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 10, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

Roll Call reports on the passing of campaign finance activist Granny D. Haddock was perhaps best known for walking across the country, at the age of 90, in support of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill in 2000. She became a familiar presence on Capitol Hill during the push for that legislation. Haddock continued to […]