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Dems Fight High Court's Campaign Finance Ruling

Kevin Spak — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:10:00 CST

Democratic legislators introduced a bill yesterday designed to mitigate the impact of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that gutted decades of campaign finance reform efforts. They’re hoping to get the bill passed ASAP, so corporate money can’t dominate the 2010 election—something that many fear would favor Republicans, the Los...

High Court May Lift Restrictions on Corporate Cash in Politics

Nick McMaster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:25:50 CDT

September 9 could mark a watershed in campaign finance, as the Supreme Court hears a special argument for overturning long-standing rules that restrict corporations from buying political advertisements, the Los Angeles Times reports. The court has used the case of Hillary: The Movie , a documentary that a lower courts decided...

GOP Lawsuits Aim to Undo McCain-Feingold Reforms

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:30:01 CST

The Republican Party, smarting over its defeat at the hands of Barack Obama’s fundraising machine, is suing to defang the campaign-finance bill John McCain sponsored, the Washington Times reports. Two suits to be filed today will challenge the legislation’s limits on so-called “soft money” and the parties’ ability to merge...

Obama Ad Blitz Stifles McCain

Kevin Spak — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:51:01 CDT

Over the past three weeks, Northern Virginia TV viewers have seen 1,342 commercials from Barack Obama … and eight from John McCain. Obama is dominating the airwaves, Politico reports, outspending McCain and the Republican National Committee as much as 8-1 in some markets, blunting GOP attacks with a sustained...

Time Travel: Google Shows You the Web in 2001

Nick McMaster — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:52:01 CDT

To honor its 10th birthday, Google put up a search engine that reflects the web in 2001, TechCrunch reports. Other than the Yahoo-esque exclamation point in Google’s logo, the search engine has not changed that much since—but searches show the web, and the world, have: "iPod" brings up a...

McCain Camp Strives to Skirt McCain-Feingold

Rob Quinn — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:03:29 CDT

John McCain is making a concerted effort to get around the campaign finance laws he championed, the New York Times reports. A lawyer who played a key role in defending the reform act known as McCain-Feingold from challenges is now on the McCain team, expertly advising on the loopholes through...

McCain Biographer: He's Lost His Principles

Nick McMaster — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:38:01 CDT

Elizabeth Drew liked McCain—she even wrote a fawning biography, Citizen McCain , in 2002. She respected the centrist who emerged after McCain’s failed 2000 primary bid, who broke from Bush on tax cuts and campaign finance reform. But watching McCain’s current campaign maneuver back to the right, she questions in...

McCain Backers Finding Ways Around Law He Sponsored

Kevin Spak — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:30:01 CDT

Desperate to keep up with Barack Obama's powerful fundraising apparatus, John McCain’s allies have found ways of skirting the very campaign finance laws the Arizona senator helped write, the Wall Street Journal reports. Republican strategists are pushing donations toward a fund used to elect governors—not subject to dollar limits—...

Death Knell Tolls for Campaign Finance

Jason Farago — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:48:38 CDT

Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign represents the biggest challenge yet to the troubled, loophole-filled system. But while the Illinois senator is now poised to spend a record amount to win the presidency, the explosion of Internet donations that have propelled his campaign might actually...