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UNM Daily Lobo
March 4, 2018
The two ruling parties control them all and routinely use them to suppress threatened competition, as do pseudo-private entities like the Commission on Presidential Debates, which makes giant illegal (but government approved) in-kind contributions to the Republican and Democratic candidates in the formÃâà...
HottyToddy.com
February 19, 2018
April 10 – “Why Debates are Vital”: Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates for the past 30 years, will talk about the importance of debates in modern politics. She played a major role in bringing the 2008 presidential debate to the Ole Miss campus. Brown will be joined byÃâà...
The Jack News
December 29, 2017
December 28, 2017, Washington, DC — Attorneys with the Our America Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy organization, have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari asking the Justices to reinstate an antitrust suit brought against the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) by former presidential candidateÃâà...
The Jack News
October 22, 2017
With each passing year, the Commission on Presidential Debates is showing itself to be more of a secretive and private organization, and less of a quasi-official public-spirited entity. It is no longer disclosing sponsors, and some board members who demonstrated concerns about the CPD's practices are noÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
September 27, 2017
The amicus brief by Peace & Shea LLP says that the Commission on Presidential Debates, the non-profit organization that sponsors the debates between ... It supports a lawsuit by Level the Playing Field, an organization that has filed a complaint that argues that the Commission on Presidential DebatesÃâà...
The Jack News
September 23, 2017
The political ritual of presidential debates seems like a long-enshrined tradition under the Commission on Presidential Debates. But it's not. And that's why it is so important to continue the fight to allow viable third-party candidates – such as Gary Johnson, the 2016 Libertarian Party nominee – on the debateÃâà...
Reason (blog)
August 29, 2017
Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson, former Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and others challenging the practices of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) had a bad day today. Judge Janice Brown concluded in a decision today from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that anÃâà...
Reason (blog)
April 21, 2017
Electoral politics is like a market, argues Bruce Fein, the lawyer for Gary Johnson (the 2012 and 2016 Libertarian Party candidate for president) and other plaintiffs in an ongoing lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), the Republican and Democratic Parties, and 2012 major partyÃâà...
IVN News
December 31, 1999
“You have to know you have a viable path into the debates to even attempt to run for president,” says Peter Ackerman, a businessman who is involved in an ongoing lawsuit against the gatekeepers of the debates, the Commission on Presidential Debates. “Let's say we were thinking of buying the DallasÃâà...
