Political strategist Margaret Hoover discussed the importance of free and fair elections in a democracy. The 2023 George Washington Symposium was hosted by George Washington’s Mount Vernon i…
111 viewsFormer Federal Election Commission Chair Trevor Potter (R) and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon (D) were among the witnesses testifying on prohibiting content generated by artificial…
458 viewsThe Senate Rules Committee held a hearing on S.1, the For the People Act, a wide-ranging bill related to voting rights, campaign finance, and ethics. Former Attorney General Eric Holder, Mic…
3,128 viewsDuring the opening plenary session of Represent.us’s inaugural Unrig the System Summit, actress Jennifer Lawrence interviewed former Federal Election Commission chair Trevor Potter about how…
1,349 viewsTrevor Potter, Bob Shrum, Leslee Sherrill, and others talked about potential electoral reform, including the Electoral College, redistricting, and voting rights.
2,050 viewsPanelists talked about the complexities and transparency issues associated with campaign financing. They focused on outside funding of campaigns since the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens Un…
443 viewsThe Senate Rules and Administration Committee held a hearing on campaign finance law, the first congressional hearing since the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier in the month that struck dow…
5,943 viewsPanelists compared the amount of corporate and union spending in the 2012 elections with prior election cycles following the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United v. Federal Election C…
516 viewsLaw professors and political scholars analyzed the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The 5-4 ruling from January 2010 eliminated restric…
1,339 viewsRepresentatives of seven government watchdog organizations outlined a proposal for a lobbying reform package that would address the failures that made the recent scandal involving lobbyist J…
148 viewsPanelists participated in a forum discussion of the politics of campaign finance laws. They addressed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, as well as its predecessors. They talked about…
105 viewsThree panels appeared before the Senate Rules Committee to address concerns over enforcement of campaign finance law. Senators McCain and Feingold testified on what they see as an unwillingn…
167 viewsOn the second day of public hearings regarding proposed regulation of “527” political groups the Federal Election Commission heard testimony from representatives of groups expressing their v…
187 viewsKenneth Starr, attorney for Senator Mitch McConnell, and Trevor Potter, attorney for Senators McCain and Feingold, talked about the U.S. Supreme Court case McConnell v. Federal Election Comm…
102 viewsAttorneys talked about their efforts to persuade the federal courts to strike down federal campaign finance reform legislation and a potential hearing by the U.S. Supreme court on the issue.…
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