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Secret Service agents and employees who pulled personal information about a member of Congress from the agency’s computers and used it in an attempt to embarrass him must be severely punished and the agency must tighten its hold on such data to prevent future breaches, Common Cause President Miles Rapoport said Thursday.

We’re writing to alert you to “Redistricting Reform, Mapping Our Future,” a special event hosted by Common Cause and the George Washington University Law School next Wednesday, October 7 at the law school.

The Supreme Court should reject claims by two Texas voters that the state has unconstitutionally diluted the value of their ballots by drawing election districts with equal numbers of citizens but unequal numbers of voters, Common Cause argues in a brief filed last week in Evenwel v. Abbott.

The deepening polarization of American politics has claimed another victim in House Speaker John Boehner, Common Cause President Miles Rapoport said today.

Pope Francis’ challenge to Americans and to people everywhere to lift up the poor and the infirm and take care of the Earth is consistent with the best traditions of every religion and every society, particularly our own, Common Cause President Miles Rapoport said today.

Our short walk today across the Memorial Bridge, from the gravesites of thousands who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of human freedom to this temple honoring the architect of emancipation, ends a long march from Selma to Washington.