Without clear rules from the FEC, only a minority of leadership PAC spending has gone toward contributions to other candidates and political committees, and instead, leadership PACs are commonly used as slush funds to subsidize politicians’ lifestyles.

A series of new lawsuits seek to upend decades of First Amendment jurisprudence affirming that campaign finance disclosure rules are both constitutional and important for our democracy.

The Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona ordered all county recorders statewide to permit voters to “cure” their signature mismatch issue by the deadline to fix conditional provisional ballots.