Who Pays for the Parties? (Blog) 9/6/2012 Editorial Note: This piece was first published as part of the Huffington Post's Shadow Convention discussion on money in politics and on my…
Honoring and Celebrating the Passage of the Voting Rights Act (Blog) 8/6/2012 Forty-seven years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law. But, the law is not just history; it remains…
Support for the DISCLOSE Act across the country (Blog) 7/13/2012 On Monday, the DISCLOSE Act will come to the floor of the U.S. Senate. We’ve been working hard to ensure that it overcomes the procedural…
Thank YOU for Telling the EPA to Protect People, Not Polluters! (Blog) 6/27/2012 Over two months ago, we began imploring you to submit comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in support of their proposed regulation…
Supreme Court Repeats Naïve, Uninformed Errors of Citizens United (Blog) 6/25/2012 The Court's decision today in a pivotal campaign finance case has repeated its naïve, uninformed errors from its Citizens United decision. The…
U.S. Senate Rejects Threat to Clean Air Act (Blog) 6/21/2012 Last week we told you about an attempt by Senator Jim Inhofe and a vocal minority that would have eliminated an historic regulation issued by the…
Money in Elections – What the League is Doing (Blog) 5/3/2012 We are all aware that the huge amount of special interest money, particularly in federal races, has been a problem for years. We also know that these…
Time is now for disclosure: Why the League supports the DISCLOSE Act (Blog) 3/29/2012 Today, a Senate Committee takes up the issue of money in politics, specifically, whether we need disclosure of who is spending vast amounts of money…
Who Will Elect the President? The Electoral College System (Blog) 8/8/2000 Adapted from a pamphlet published by the League of Women Voters Education Fund in 1980 Every four years, the Electoral College, a little-known…, Supporters argue that the one-person, one-vote principle should not pertain to the Electoral College, just as it does not pertain to the US Senate.…