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Revisiting Citizens United decision: Not as harmful as feared, and actually provides a 1st Amendment rationale for curbing super PACs

[…] President Obama ("Priorities USA Action"). Although nominally adhering to FEC regulations against coordination with candidates, these super PACs are shadow campaign organizations run by political consultants whose ad-buying and other decisions are in perfect lockstep with their respective candidates. The closeness of the super PACs and campaigns renders meaningless the limits on contributions to […]

June 1, 2012
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Responses to Peter Scheer’s Commentary on Vallejo’s Bankruptcy

June 2, 2009
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Putin plays the media like a violin

BY PETER SCHEER--Among the many "firsts" of the current election cycle is the disconcerting spectacle of a foreign adversary successfully manipulating the American news media. I’m referring, of course, to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. After government cybersleuths, at his direction, hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computer network and the email inbox of Hillary Clinton’s […]

October 19, 2016
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One judge’s brilliant (and hilarious) rejoinder to lawyers trying to cut off public access to court documents
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 25, 2015
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NSA surveillance case reflects a growing distrust in the federal judiciary

Judge Walker’s decision in the NSA surveillance case reflects a growing distrust in the federal judiciary of the Bush administration's expansion of executive power By Peter Scheer Three cheers for Vaughn Walker. Vaughn who? you ask. Until very recently, he was also unknown to lawyers and policy makers in the White House. But on […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Now Hiring: 2023 Legal Fellow

[…] – that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates and litigates to protect and promote government transparency and First Amendment protections for all. The Legal Fellow will report to FAC’s Legal Director and work with […]

September 9, 2022
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New state law adds protections for anonymous online speech
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Media heroism turned on its head: The real Manning scandal

BY EDWARD WASSERMAN--In media mythology, the years from the mid-‘60s to the mid-’70s were the classical age, a heroic time of moral clarity. Mainstream journalism marinated in adversarialism. Little Southern newspapers infuriated their own readers by staring down segregation. Foreign correspondents forced upon an unwilling public the realities of a brutal war. Network news […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 20, 2013
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Maybe summoning the press before Parliament isn’t such a bad idea

[…] faced off with British legislators last week about his newspaper’s publishing secrets about official surveillance that were leaked by the fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden. Press advocates weren’t pleased. Carl Bernstein, the Watergate-era star who’s on the Mount Rushmore of 20th century media heroes, certainly wasn’t. In an open letter to Rusbridger, Bernstein […]
- Press Freedom
December 18, 2013
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Leading gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown need to show voters, by their own actions, that they are committed to transparency in government. Promises won’t cut it.

[…] should get to pick and choose who can see public records. Selective access to information and freedom-of-information are mutually exclusive. The test for Brown is whether, in advance of the election, he will waive--for the public generally--the 50-year exemption for his gubernatorial records, giving access to all (subject, of course, to the exceptions in […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 9, 2010