Advocates trying to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision or otherwise enact new limits on campaign spending are finding a common cause with civil rights groups fighting Republican efforts to enact voter-identification laws. They say the issues are related....
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A billboard on Interstate 94 east of downtown St. Paul, Minn. makes an appeal to soldiers and military veterans to support a proposed voter ID amendment on the ballot in Minnesota.
Citizens United Foes, Civil Rights Pros: Common Ground on Voter ID
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President Barack Obama at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Obama’s Podium: ‘Gov’t Property’
President Obama now flies Air Force One with two spokespeople aboard — White House press secretary Jay Carney and campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki. So should he also be juggling two podium placards? Carney’s West Wing predecessor, Robert Gibbs, told CBS...
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Mitt Romney during a speech to the NAACP annual convention on July 11, 2012, in Houston.
Romney’s NAACP Booing for Repealing `Obama-care’ and More
This wasn’t a friendly audience. There is no gap in American politics wider than the one which divides the Democratic and Republican Party among African-American voters — the latest poll today showing Republican Mitt Romney favored by just 2 percent...
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Actor and activist George Clooney is arrested for blocking the entrance of the Sudan Embassy on March 16, 2012, in Washington.
Ethics Panel Won’t Review Four Lawmakers’ Arrest at Protest
The House Ethics Committee, which is empowered to investigate lawbreaking by House members, is taking a pass on the arrest of four Democratic lawmakers during a protest outside the Sudan Embassy on March 16 that included actor George Clooney. Massachusetts Democrats Jim McGovern...
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