Supreme Court shakes up US campaign finance ahead of 2008
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The 2008 race for the White House, already the most expensive campaign in history, looks set for a new infusion of cash from deep-pocketed lobbyists and vested interests after a Supreme Court ruling.
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Politics is a big-money business: In the current presidential election, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry have raised a combined total of nearly half a billion dollars, according to filings with the Federal Elections Commission.
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Just two weeks before America&#39;s voters are expected to leave Republicans in control of the US House of Representatives, the Supreme Court yesterday revived a
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The Federal Election Commission said Tuesday it will appeal a federal judge's decision to strike down more than a dozen of the government's current rules on political fund raising.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to step into a dispute over the Bush administration's promotion of federal financing for faith-based charities.
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Tens of thousands of lawyers took up positions across the United States ahead of the presidential election amid fears of a repeat of irregularities that tainted the 2000 polls.
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A  rule change  proposed by the Federal Election Commission yesterday could substantially enhance the clout of the nation's business lobbies, campaign-finance lawyers said.
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NEWS: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s thyroid cancer gives the Supreme Court new prominence in the presidential campaign; the next president could appoint one or more justices.
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The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court is a more conservative place under Chief Justice John Roberts and associate Justice Samuel Alito.
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The US Supreme Court gave the Republican Party the go-ahead to place thousands of representatives inside Ohio polling centers to challenge voters' eligibility.
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It has been well-known for some time that the 2008 presidential campaign will be heavily Ã¢ÂÂfront-loaded.Ã¢ÂÂ A compressed schedule of primary and caucus elections, held earlier than ever in the presidential year, will culminate in events in upwards of 20 states next Feb. 5; that is fully nine months before the November general election.
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Non-party groups spending millions of dollars in unlimited donations on ads and get-out-the-vote drives in this year's presidential race will face some new ground rules starting with the 2006 election.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- In the high-stakes game of poker that is the credit card business, on Monday the US Supreme Court shuffled the deck.
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In developments Tuesday at the Supreme Court, the court:
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SUPREME COURT The 2000 presidential election is among the Supreme Court&#39;s more controversial decisions under Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
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Contenders for the major partiesÃ¢ÂÂ 2008 presidential nominations have filed fundraising reports for the yearÃ¢ÂÂs second quarter (April 1-June 30) to the Federal Election Commission ahead of SundayÃ¢ÂÂs deadline Ã¢ÂÂ and data from these reports are available at CQÃ¢ÂÂs Political MoneyLine (PML), Congressional QuarterlyÃ¢ÂÂs campaign finance Web site.
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After months of intense campaigning about Iraq, terror, taxes and jobs, the future of the Supreme Court has finally entered the public discourse.