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Groups failed to disclose all political donors The Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (CFDB) will proceed with an investigation of the financial activities of Minnesota for Marriage and the Minnesota Family Council. A complaint by Common Cause Minnesota triggered the investigation of both organizations for failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in [...]

Thousands of Vermonters sent their congressmen and senators a message on Tuesday: get busy and pass a constitutional amendment to control big money in politics. Residents attending 57 annual town meetings across the Green Mountain State approved a resolution instructing their representatives to approve an amendment reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of [...]

On March 6, the City Council of Richmond, California voted unanimously to support a resolution “asking whether Richmond’s congressional representatives should be instructed to propose, and Richmond’s state legislators instructed to ratify, an amendment to the United States Constitution to provide that corporations are not entitled to the Constitutional rights of real people, and that [...]

U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull continues to draw fire over a racist email directed at President Obama and the President’s mother that he forwarded to friends last week. The National Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association on Monday joined calls for Judge Cebull’s resignation. NBA President Daryl D. Parks said the [...]

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