Democracy Wire

Of course I was thrilled this past April when the Federal Communications Commission indicated it was leaning against approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger.

Presidential candidate Jeb Bush said yesterday that there’s been “dramatic improvement” in access to voting since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 and that there’s no need to support reauthorizing the law “as is.”

Voting is one of the most important rights and duties of citizens in a democracy.

Veteran election lawyer Bob Bauer had some simple but powerful advice Wednesday for about 50 young attorneys who gathered for a meeting of the D.C. Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society.

In the post-Citizens United era, sometimes it seems that the only way to run a viable campaign for public office is to rely on donations from deep-pocketed donors and interest groups that inevitably will want favors in return for their financial support.

The fight over Planned Parenthood funding serves as a reminder of who actually makes up and controls Congress and why we need strong political reforms.