{"id":684212,"date":"2010-03-05T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:14:15","slug":"center-for-responsive-politics-associates-urge-supreme-court-to-value-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684212","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RZG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785314,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684212\/revisions\/785314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}