SUPREME COURT DECIDES PIVOTAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE CASE (Press Release) 6/25/2012 Court Repeats Naïve, Uninformed Errors of Its Citizens United Decision
MORE THAN 2 MILLION COMMENTS SUPPORTING EPA PROTECTIONS AGAINST CARBON POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE COLLECTED (Press Release) 6/22/2012 The League and a broad coalition of groups supporting clean air safeguards announced they have collected more than two million comments in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)…
U.S. Senate Rejects Threat to Clean Air Act (Blog) 6/21/2012 Last week we told you about an attempt by Senator Jim Inhofe and a vocal minority that would have eliminated an histo
Advocacy Report - June 2012 (Article) 6/14/2012 Advocacy Report for June 2012 by Judy Duffy, Advocacy Committee Chair.
Political Bribery Is Legal Again (News Clips) 6/14/2012 “Our election system is literally awash in money, and the 2012 election will again shatter all spending records. The amount of money from wealthy special interests, millionaires and billionaires…
League of Women Voters Powers the Vote for 2012 Elections (Press Release) 6/12/2012 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Campaign Finance Experts, John Zogby Address Delegates
ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER ADDRESSES VOTING RIGHTS (Press Release) 6/11/2012 League is “Fiercely Committed” to Nation’s Voters, says Holder
93 Years Ago: A stop on the way to women’s suffrage (Blog) 6/4/2012 Ninety-three years ago today, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress an
LWV-US In Action on Campaign Finance (Article) 5/31/2012 The Campaign Finance Task Force has completed an informational paper that covers a brief history of LWV action on campaign finance, what the LWV has done, is doing now and what Leagues can also do.
League NGO’s Partner Selected by the Government of Tunisia (Blog) 5/25/2012 As part of our work for the 9th Forum for the Future scheduled to be held in Tunisia in December, I traveled last weekend to Tunis-Carthage to meet NGO leaders.