The Ethics Commission voted to restore the donor site, scrap plans for a new one and pursue legal action against the vendor ...

I've covered elections in this state for 25 years, including the years since 2018, when voters here changed election laws to allow Michiganders to vote absentee without justification, and required ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate for office. During over two hours of ...

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WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court could eliminate one of the remaining checks on money in politics in a case that worries advocates fighting the influence of deep-pocketed donors. In a challenge ...

Trump is just a puppet whose strings are pulled by his owners — the oligarchs behind Project 2025. We can’t solve the problem until we clearly define it. Trump is not the problem. Both major parties ...

If Gov. Robert Bentley's impeachment goes to the Alabama House, two lawmakers could find themselves in a pickle. Rep. Terri Collins (left) and Rep. Laura Hall (right) both accepted money outside the ...

Each day, Mike Stapleton wakes up owing the state of Colorado another $1,550. By the end of each week, Stapleton’s debt for not filing nearly three dozen campaign finance reports dating to April 2018 ...

Even if the state wanted to bring charges against federally indicted-Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba for failing to submit several campaign finance reports, it likely wouldn’t due to Mississippi’s ...

Do reporters care about the politician, or furthering their narratives? It is worth asking whether the media have spun two narratives around the 2008 presidential candidacy of John Edwards. The first, ...