In Iowa Right to Life, Inc., v. Miller, filed yesterday, Jim Bopp challenges a host of Citizens United-related legislation in Iowa. On the list: the state requirement that corporations (among others) register and report as PACs if they spend past… Continue reading

That’s the headline from Curtis Gans’ latest assessment of turnout figures from the 2010 primaries. Supporting data here.

Report from BNA ($).

Amanda Frost catalogs four very important new articles evaluating Citizen’s United.

According to this story, American Traffic Solutions, which owns and operates cameras monitoring traffic compliance at intersections, sued to stop an upcoming city referendum on the cameras in Baytown, TX. In part, it argued based on the Voting Rights… Continue reading

So reports the NY Daily News.

Legal action as a follow-up to this story.

Where Lisa Murkowski “says she’s not a quitter.”

Hans von Spakovsky reports that Christian Adams is planning NVRA suits against 16 states in “obvious violation” of the NVRA mandate to remove ineligible voters from registration rolls.

Stories here and here about misleading slate mailers, with purported endorsements that don’t exist. This wouldn’t be the first report of such things in Maryland. This time there’s a twist, though: given the recommendations on the mailer in question, one… Continue reading

Complaints about New York’s new ballots, including font size.

Eliza Newlin Carney’s latest.

The Center for Public Integrity follows-up on the list of PACs notifying the FEC of their intent to seek enhanced individual contributions, after the DC Circuit’s decision in SpeechNow.org v. FEC. Curiously, that list doesn’t yet include SpeechNow itself.

In Jim Bopp’s latest, a Washington federal court following Citizens United and SpeechNow.org struck down state contribution limits to a PAC planning expenditures on a ballot measure, and upheld the state’s disclosure law. Down the coast, a California federal court… Continue reading