Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Supreme Court Declines to Review Important Ninth Circuit Decision Upholding Washington State Ballot Measure Disclosure Laws - Inbox - Yahoo! Mail

 

The Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in Human Life of Washington gives the green light to advocates of effective campaign finance disclosure to aggressively defend existing disclosure laws under challenge by Bopp and other opponents of transparency in government, and to legislators to enact stronger disclosure laws to shine light on the recent flood of corporate dollars into U.S. elections that are being laundered through intermediaries like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and increasingly-prevalent fly-by-night 501(c)(4) organizations formed solely for the purpose of hiding the identities of special interests trying to buy our elections.

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