Seattle Times: The U.S. Supreme Court has generally upheld the public financing of campaigns, within the limits of the First Amendment, saying that “public financing as a means of eliminating the improper influence of large private contributions furthers a significant… Continue reading

Release: Seattle’s new “democracy voucher” program flouts the First Amendment by forcing property owners, through a new tax, to subsidize other people’s political campaign donations and fund candidates not of their choosing. There is nothing special about vouchers. All public… Continue reading

A reader emails with an interesting theory: Plenty of pundits (presumably non-ELB readers) have recently puzzled aloud about the title that Majority Leader McConnell gave to the Senate substitute to the American Health Care Act (“weirdly named,” said Ryan Grim).… Continue reading

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Larry Norden and John Pudner oped for USA Today.

Eliza Newlin Carney on Seattle’s experiment with campaign finance vouchers. Longtime ELB readers know I’ve been touting vouchers for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.

Release: Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a lawsuit demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) turn over documents relating to the private prison company GEO Group and a super PAC that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence… Continue reading