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Five Ways To #GetMoneyOut of Politics
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that let wealthy corporations and specials interests spend as much as they wish in elections to expand their political power.
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Will the Supreme Court Let Elected Judges Beg For Cash?
The Supreme Court on Tuesday confronted the question of whether candidates for state judgeships have a free speech right to personally solicit campaign contributions. You can read our analysis of the case here, where we explain that Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar is not about free speech, but rather judicial integrity.
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7 Bills To Defend Our Democracy
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court's disastrous ruling in Citizens United, and to commemorate the occasion, lawmakers are proposing a slate of 7 bills to put our government back in the people's hands
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Seven Things We Want To Hear President Obama Say In the State of the Union
President Obama gives his 7th State of the Union speech tonight -- here's what we'd like to hear him say.
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Williams-Yulee Is Not About Free Speech, It’s About Judicial Integrity
The Supreme Court is hearing a case tomorrow that threatens to further politicize the bench at a time of skyrocketing spending in judicial races.
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Can You Hear Us Now?
In a digital age, communities that have long been either the subject of debate or voiceless stereotype now have the means to control their own story. The open Internet provides a way to give the voices of the unheard shape, meaning, and direction.
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Voting discrimimation isn’t a thing of the past
As many recall, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 last year in Shelby County v. Holder to gut a key provision in the Voting Rights Act that for decades required states and jurisdictions with histories of discrimination to submit their proposed voting changes to a federal body for review before implementation.
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El sueño del Dr. King... y el nuestro
Al conmemorar el cumpleaños del Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reflexionamos sobre sus logros y el trabajo que aún queda por hacer.
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Get Out The Vote – and Cancel Out The Money
It’s the old chicken-and-egg problem. Corruption in politics depresses voter turnout, which leads to more corruption in politics. So which came first?
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Talking Citizens United on EWTN
As we mark the fifth anniversary of Citizens United, Stephen Spaulding joined EWTN to discuss the aftermath of the disastrous Supreme Court decision and how it has affected our democracy.
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How Did We Get Here? Citizens United Five Years Later
January 21 marks the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court issuing its opinion in Citizens United.
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Deuda estudiantil
Mientras los estadounidenses enfrentan una deuda de préstamos estudiantiles de 1,2 billones de dólares y el 60 por ciento de los estadounidenses apoya un plan para dar a los estudiantes las mismas tasas de interés que los grandes bancos, los bancos de Wall Street (muchos de los cuales se benefician de los préstamos estudiantiles) gastaron más de 100 millones de dólares en las elecciones de 2014.
