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Percentage of Harper’s Index numbers about campaign spending and Citizens United bearing no resemblance to reality: 72. More or less.
Harper’s Magazine is known for it’s Harper’s Index, a collection of various factoids that is supposed to shed some great meaning on life. Their latest is that 72 percent of political ad spending in 2010 would have been illegal before Citizens United. This is being “tweeted” and “retweeted” all over the place. There is just [...]
CCP Legal Director Debates the Validity of super PACs live Wed., Feb 22, on Wisconsin Public Radio
CCP’s Legal Director Allen Dickerson will appear on Wisconsin Public Radio tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, to debate on-air the usefulness of super PACs in the democratic process. The show begins at 8 am est. The live stream can be found by visiting WPR’s streaming page.
Colorado Supreme Court rules for the First Amendment in Case joined by CCP
Today, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that groups of citizens cannot be treated as a political committee – and have their resources and message limited – unless they explicitly call for the election or defeat of a candidate. CCP participated in the case as a “friend of the court,” in conjunction with the Denver office [...]
This is what the rule of law looks like
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United opinion is, concededly, controversial. But it is clearly the law of the land, and as a binding interpretation of the First Amendment, “the judges in every state [are] bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” Our Chairman, Brad Smith, previously addressed Justice [...]
SCOTUS issues stay on Montana court order challenging Citizens United
Late Friday afternoon the Supreme Court granted a stay of the Montana Supreme Court’s order in American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock. That’s the decision in which the Montana Supreme Court adopted the rather bizarre argument by Montana officials that they and their fellow politicians were so uniquely corrupt, and their constituents so uniquely incapable of voting [...]
