{"id":395388,"date":"2010-03-05T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1406"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:45:10","slug":"center-for-responsive-politics-associates-urge-supreme-court-to-value-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/395388","title":{"rendered":"Center for Responsive Politics, Associates Urge Supreme Court to Value Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Responsive Politics has joined the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University&#8217;s School of Law and the Sunlight Foundation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/publiced\/preview\/briefs\/pdfs\/09-10\/09-559_NeutralAmCu3NonPartisanOrgs.pdf\">urging the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> to keep transparency in mind as&nbsp;it considers the case <em>John Doe #1 v. Sam Reed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners in the case seek to invalidate the Washington State Open Records Act in a manner that allows limits on the disclosure of ballot initiative petition signatures.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Responsive Politics and its partner organizations, in an <em>amicus curiae<\/em> brief to the court, argue that &#8220;the curtain of privacy that is appropriate to the voting booth should not be drawn to hide the workings of money in politics from public scrutiny and from political accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Said Sheila Krumholz, the Center&#8217;s executive director: &#8220;Transparency is crucial&nbsp;to the public&#8217;s understanding of&nbsp;the government it elects, the policies&nbsp;it adopts&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;political influence-makers that surround it. We urge the Court to be thoughtful in considering this critical element of the case before it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Responsive Politics has joined the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University&#8217;s School of Law and the Sunlight Foundation in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to keep transparency in mind as&nbsp;it considers the case John Doe #1 v. Sam Reed. The petitioners in the case seek to invalidate the Washington State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}