...upset Murkowski in the GOP primary but she mounted a write-in campaign to win the general election. According to Federal Election Commission filings, Miller had about $430,000 available, as of the end of September.
...provided at the reception summarized legislation to improve transparency and public understanding of spending in federal elections in the aftermath of the Citizens United decision. Brown sought Sen. Begich's response to the legislation and the...
...illegal.We can't fault the jury for failing to agree on something the government can't seem to figure out. The Federal Election Commission, which audited the campaign accounts, didn't consider the payments campaign contributions. The Justice...
...come primarily from the left. Monday, the court issued a summary dismissal of a challenge to Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which held that corporations have the same political advocacy rights as individuals. The original 2010...
...registration numbers from 2012, a presidential election year, with numbers from 2011, in which there was no statewide or federal election in Alaska, is not an ideal measure of comparison."I would compare like election years, so it would be 2008 would...
...of President Ronald Reagan.The 2-1 decision came in a constitutional challenge by Shelby County, Ala., to federal election monitoring, which is designed to prevent racial discrimination. The appeals court was upholding a ruling eight...
...Like it or not, and we didn't like it, the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission determined that corporations have a constitutional right to make independent expenditures in connection...
...voter ID laws that protect the integrity of that cherished right.? von Spakovsky, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
...Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic primary season in 2008. The ruling was 5 to 4 in Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission.According to a Begich fact sheet, the "Supreme Court's Citizens United decision gave corporations...
...negotiate their way to criminal immunity. And considering the Supreme Court ruling two years ago in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, our free speech rights apply to corporate campaign contributions that can reward the political actors...
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