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A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United | David Sirota

A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America’s legal systemSlush funds of anonymous unregulated money are now the dominant institu...

Editorial: Limit corporate activism in Hawaii

In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission turned to constitutional principles to overturn restrictions on campaign messaging, and t...

Hawaii Passes State Law Circumventing Citizens United

Hawaii took a bold and necessary step to try to undermine the Citizens United ruling, which has flooded the country with dark-money campaign contributions. The governor just signed...

Hawaii Governor Signs First-of-Its-Kind Legislation to Circumvent Citizens United; Legal Challenges Expected

On May 14, 2026, Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed constitutionally suspect legislation designed to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark free speech decision in Citizens Un...

SCOTUS' Takedown of American Democracy Is Complete

Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans' voices. The only solution is at the ballot box

The supreme court’s takedown of American democracy is complete | Austin Sarat

Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans’ voices. The only solution is at the ballot boxWriting in 1943, the historian Henry Steele Commag...

Court Cases About Money and Speech in Politics

Readers discuss court cases about campaign finance. Also: Computer science and the humanities.

Column: End run on Supreme Court likely to draw a penalty flag

Senate Bill 2471, the Legislature’s attempt to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing corporations to spend unlimited “dark money” to influence el...

Editorial: Reduce corporate money in politics

The tiny 50th State of Hawaii has an enormous chance to lead the nation in turning the tide of murky corporate and “dark money” in elections — a disturbing floodgate opened in 2010...

Letter: Case must do more to end Citizens United

I am heartened by Senate Bill 2471, now Act 11, advancing to negate some of the Citizens United bribery scheme that is undermining our democracy in Hawaii. However, I notice that U...

Letter: Hawaii’s opportunity to right SCOTUS wrong

Hawaii Senate Bill 2471 has a very real chance of countering the devastation to our election processes caused by the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Prior to...

The First Amendment Does Not Contain An Election-Year Exception

The First Amendment does not allow the government to restrict political speech because change might be disruptive.

Letter: Setting record straight on campaign finance

A writer questioned whether I support repeal of the destructive 2010 Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates to unlimited and dark money corporate campaign influence...

Campaign Spending Commission comments on the passage of Act 11

Gov. Josh Green has signed Senate Bill 2471 into law as Act 11, establishing changes to Hawaiʻi campaign finance laws regarding spending on and contributions to elections and ball...

The Supreme Court Protected Donor Privacy. The IRS Didn't Get the Memo.

The federal government is still fighting to collect nonprofit donor information despite Supreme Court warnings that such demands chill free speech. 

Senate bill reaffirms that corporations, artificial persons cannot influence elections

Hawaiʻi State Senate passed a measure that clarifies that corporations and other artificial entities cannot spend money or contribute to elections and ballot measures.

Compliance Notes - Vol. 7, Issue 7

RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance - Colorado: A federal judge upheld Colorado’s individual campaign contribution l...

Supreme Court Unanimously Limits State AG’s Subpoena Power Over Donor Information

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued an unanimous decision holding that a New Jersey Attorney General subpoena seeking nonprofit donor information inflicted a present injury on t...

Campaign Finance: Oxymoron

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission: C253723 05/21/2026 Put Missouri First Republican National Committee 310 First Street SE Washington DC …Continue reading →

‘Toothless’ or Unconstitutional? SCOTUS Hears Case on $100M Fines for Verizon, AT&T

Most Supreme Court justices seemed to side with the government against a claim by telecom giants that the Federal Communications Commission violated the companies’ right... Read Mo...

A Surprisingly Unanimous SCOTUS Decision Renders a Blow to the Relentless Targeting of Pro-Life Groups

Supreme Court Paves the Way for State Investigatory Subpoena Challenges in Federal Court

Highlights Immediate federal forum: The Supreme Court unanimously held that a state investigatory subpoena recipient could sue in federal court before a state court orders comp...

"A day of loss": US Supreme Court dilutes VRA in Callais ruling, sparking outcry from Obama and Harris

Washington DC [US], April 30 (ANI): The US Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a landmark 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that significantly altered the legal landscape of Amer...

Unanimous Supreme Court Affirms Standing to Challenge Subpoena for Info on Financial Supporters

The Court dispatches with an easy case the lower courts should have gotten right.