Campaign Finance & Election
Campaigns should be open and free, not prone to manipulation through government financing schemes. And now the U.S. Supreme Court agrees.
Thomas Jefferson attacked the idea of forcing Americans to contribute to political causes they disagreed with. He called it "sinful and tyrannical." Most Americans still believe it violates a basic sense of fairness.
Three recently-elected state senators and representatives have violated Arizona campaign finance laws, according to preliminary findings from a Citizens Clean Elections Commission investigation. This announcement comes on the heels of the Commission announcing that it may remove Rep. David Burnell Smith from office for allegedly violating campaign finance laws as well.
An Arizona Republic editorial this week was highly critical of legislative proposals concerning the method by which state appellate court judges and in Pima and Maricopa county judges are appointed and retained. The editorial argues that no changes are necessary because the system "ain't broke."
The Goldwater Institute's Nick Dranias went on Liberty Watch with Charles Heller where he discussed the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturning the individual mandate in the health care law, as well as the latest on the Goldwater Institute's lawsuit of the federal health care law.
Goldwater Institute attorney Nick Dranias squared off with Clean Elections executive director Todd Lang on KTVK's Politics Unplugged over the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law is unconstitutional.
Goldwater Institute attorney Nick Dranias appeared live on Jim Sharpe's show on KFYI to explain why the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law was the right one.
The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick joined KFYI's Mike Broomhead to explain to listeners what the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law means for them.
The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick talked to Channel 10 just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of free speech and declared the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law unconstitutional.
The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick talked to Channel 15 the day the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Goldwater Institute and struck down the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law.
The Goldwater Institute earned a victory against the matching funds provision of Arizona's Clean Elections law in the U.S. Supreme Court. KTVK Channel 3 looks at why the High Court declared it unconstitutional.