The Institute for Free Speech argues that the measure circumvents the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and violates organizations' First Amendment rights.
The community home to the CIA and many military contractors no longer favors the Democratic Party.
In one race after another, candidates prevailed over opponents with big spending advantages.
Princes and Thieves makes explosive claims about the Trump family’s role in Middle Eastern intrigue.
With midterm voting underway, the distinction between public service announcements and campaign ads blurs.
The Senate’s funding bill stops the Trump administration from handing political appointees control over federal grants, but Congress isn’t eager to rein in spending.
Evan Barker discusses the Democratic Party's growing disconnect from working-class voters, the realities of political fundraising, and the future of populism in America.
Those who blame Buckley for our current problems are wrong to do so. A contrary decision would have made things worse.
The Manhattan district attorney converted a hush payment into 34 felonies via a chain of legal reasoning with several conspicuously weak links.
Legislative disfunction is at the root of many current controversies, and past legislation bears part of the problem.
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.
Powerful political allies get a pass, while dissenters are crushed with massive fines. This isn’t a flaw in the system—it’s the point.
Aside from a felony record that may yet be erased on appeal, the president-elect will face no punishment for trying to conceal his hush payment to Stormy Daniels.
The New York City mayor's kickbacks from Turkish officials translated into extra cash from taxpayers.
Will the mercurial tech mogul put his thumb on the scale to help his own companies, or will he push for a broader deregulatory agenda?
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
Law professor Ann Southworth offers a balanced take on the fallout from the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
A divided circuit panel stays the district court's injunction against enforcing Ohio's law.
A $92 million war chest and unclear regulations highlight the need for reform to protect political speech.
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
Contrary to what prosecutors say, the former president is not charged with "conspiracy" or "election fraud."
Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.
New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy.
To convert a hush money payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are invoking an obscure state election law that experts say has never been used before.
Since Donald Trump's alleged falsification of business records happened after he was elected president, he clearly was not trying to ensure that outcome.
The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another.
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Neither Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg nor New York Attorney General Letitia James can explain exactly who was victimized by the dishonesty they cite.
The essence of the case, the Manhattan D.A. says, is that Trump "corrupt[ed] a presidential election" by concealing embarrassing information.
Those sounding the loudest alarms about possible shutdowns are largely silent when Congress ignores its own budgetary rules. All that seems to matter is that government is metaphorically funded.
The Manhattan case stinks of partisan politics, but Trump faces more serious legal jeopardy on at least three other fronts.
The case against the former president is both morally dubious and legally shaky.
Trump very much deserves to be prosecuted and punished. But the New York case is far more dubious than the other charges likely to be brought against him.
The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is relying on debatable facts and untested legal theories to transform minor misconduct into a felony.
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