Elections and campaigns

Voter registration applications are public records under federal law that cannot be withheld from release simply because of an arbitrary…

In a decision that will make it easier for journalists to cover controversial elections in Colorado, the state’s appellate court…

Disclosure of a political candidate’s expunged criminal record cannot give rise to an invasion-of-privacy claim, the New Hampshire Supreme Court…

A West Virginia judge Monday dropped all charges filed against the publisher of a West Virginia monthly paper who photographed…

A Texas man who took out an ad that said a former mayor broke laws in a city land acquisition…

When the Supreme Court turned campaign-finance law on its head today with its decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C., the…

A federal judge in New Jersey issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking that state’s attempt to ban exit polling within…

On the heels of a Supreme Court ruling that temporarily blocked the release of the names of people who petitioned…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the release of the names of people who petitioned to overturn a Washington…