RI Sen. Whitehouse, McCain ask U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Montana campaign finance restrictions

John E. Mulligan The Providence Journal 5/18/2012

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, and John McCain, R-AZ, have told the U.S. Supreme Court that they support state-level campaign finance restrictions, upheld last year by Montana’s highest court, that run counter to a controversial 2010 case that has lifted nationwide limits on election spending by corporations, unions and […]

Bloggers Beware: The Campaign Finance Laws Are Coming For You!

Robert Frommer Institute for Justice 8/9/2010

It was inevitable: Politicians are starting to turn to the campaign finance laws to silence their critics on the Internet.

In Ohio, for instance, Edmund Corsi runs GeaugaConstitutionalCouncil.org, a blog that praises and criticizes various local officials. Well, it turns out that some of those officials don’t like getting […]

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