via the Washington Post Plutocracy is on the rise in the United States. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC allow corporations and wealthy individuals to donate unprecedented amounts to political campaigns, giving them megaphones in the public square. There is a…
Read Morevia the New York Times CHICAGO — With an unsolved state budget deficit and a mounting standoff over essential issues like tax increases and business regulations, Illinois’s political leaders are braced for a long, difficult fight in the aftermath of…
Read Morevia CBS News Jeb Bush said he is not violating the law by raising money for his super PAC ahead of a possible presidential campaign and said there will be “no coordination at all” with the outside group if he…
Read Morevia the Chicago Sun-Times After losing in November, Gov. Pat Quinn went on a $404.6 million spending spree during his final two months in office, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show. Quinn’s economic development department raced to dole out…
Read MoreVia NBC News The indictment of Dennis Hastert, the former House speaker, on charges that he tried to conceal cash withdrawals to keep “prior misconduct” secret stunned some political allies. Republicans elevated Hastert from obscurity when they gave him the…
Read Morevia the New York Times The debunking of a recent academic paper on changing views about same-sex marriage has raised concerns about whether other political science research is being properly vetted and verified. But the scandal may actually point to vulnerabilities…
Read Morevia the Wall Street Journal CHICAGO—Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is dropping thousands of dollars into the campaign accounts of every GOP lawmaker in Illinois as the state’s fiscal crisis grows and deadlines near. The $400,000 dispersed in recent weeks appears to…
Read Morevia the Washington Post Decades after the Supreme Court set “one person, one vote” as the standard states must meet in creating legislative districts that equitably distribute political power, the justices agreed Tuesday to decide exactly which persons should count. The…
Read Morevia the New York Times WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a case that will answer a long-contested question about a bedrock principle of the American political system: the meaning of “one person one vote.” The court’s…
Read Morevia Crain’s When Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office acknowledged that he had made $400,000 in campaign contributions to Republican members of the state Legislature, it opened up a familiar debate. What is the role of money in Illinois politics? Rauner has…
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