…and his cohorts in the right-wing echo chamber don’t just defend secret money in politics, they get quite poetic about it. Wrapping dark money in the flag and the Federalist…
Scott Walker Backers Defend Lead and Wisconsin’s Poisoned Politics
Leaked Documents Show Court’s Dismissal of the John Doe Was Based on a False Premise
…in the face of multiple U.S. Supreme Court decisions. That is the subject of an appeal that the nation’s highest court will consider when it reconvenes after its summer break…
Supreme Cover-Up: How the Wisconsin Justice System Failed in the Walker John Doe
…its offshoot Citizens for Strong America, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC), Jobs First Coalition (a shell group tied to American Federation for Children’s Scott Jensen, the former Speaker of the…
Scott Walker John Doe: Corporate Checks Fueled Coordinated Campaign
…for iron mining as they pushed to open their mine in northern Wisconsin. After a multiyear effort they project was later abandoned as unfeasible. Helping Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce According…
Fossil Fuel Industry Paid for Meetings with GOP Attorneys General to Plan Attack on Clean Power Plan
…Troutman Sanders, U.S. Chamber for Legal Reform, the State Policy Network and Peabody Energy. According to materials reviewed by CMD, since 2015 RAGA has received at least $100,000 from ExxonMobil,…
ALEC 2016 Agenda Boosts Charters, Coal, and Other Corporate Funders
…urge socially responsible investing. Still Attacking Public Sector Unions after Losing in the Supreme Court Earlier this year, a split U.S. Supreme Court left standing a lower court’s decision to…
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…industry and revealed lobbyist efforts to hide Chamber of Commerce members’ overwhelming support for raising the minimum wage and providing paid sick leave, among other groundbreaking investigations. CMD’s work has…
CMD Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Prosecutors’ Appeal in John Doe II Corruption Case
On Wednesday, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the Brennan Center for Justice, and Common Cause filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to grant…
Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money
…reformers. In 2012, the very same year that the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida Taxwatch launched183 Right on Crime in Florida, the Chamber184 was described185 as “a primary lobbying…
