Voter ID laws cast into relief the tension between promoting electoral participation and preventing election fraud. Photo by AP Photo/Star Tribune, Kyndell Harkness.
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A federal court ruled that the state of Texas could not show that a new voter ID law would not harm the voting rights of its minorities and struck down…
The U.S. Supreme Court has reaffirmed its support for its controversial Citizens United ruling that held corporations have a First Amendment right to expressly support political candidates with independent spending.
Updated: If America wants to do something about elections, the nation should pass a constitutional amendment allowing limits on political contributions. Or it should pass an amendment establishing a U.S.…
Essentially admitting defeat after a federal jury last month acquitted former Sen. John Edwards on one count in a campaign-fraud case and deadlocked on five others, the U.S. Department of…
The question in a Citizens United sequel is not whether the U.S. Supreme Court will accept the case but how the justices will reverse the Montana Supreme Court.
The partial acquittal and mistrial on Thursday in the John Edwards trial is the second high-profile loss this year for the Justice Department’s public integrity section.
On June 26, 1973, the growing Watergate scandal was already a year old, and John W. Dean III, President Richard M. Nixon’s former White House counsel, was in his second…