All posts by Dan Tokaji

D-Backs Legend’s Ad for McCain

June 25, 2016, 5:21 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

Arizona’s Politics has two posts on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Arizona Chamber of Commerce’s $570K buy for an ad in support of Senator McCain, featuring former Arizona Diamondbacks star — hero of the 2001 World Series — and… Continue reading

Drutman on Rauch and Responsiveness

June 25, 2016, 5:03 amUncategorizedDan Tokaji

Lee Drutman has this piece on Vox responding to Rauch. Drutman argues: The current chaos is instead the logical backlash to the inequalities that the existing power structures have created in order to maintain themselves. What we’re seeing now is… Continue reading

The GAB and Employer Information

June 24, 2016, 10:32 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has now withdrawn its blog post alleging that the GAB recently changed its database to make employer information unsearchable.

Goldfeder’s Daily Presidential Quiz

June 24, 2016, 8:49 amUncategorizedDan Tokaji

You can find this week’s questions here.

“Bernie Sanders Campaign Showed How to Turn Viral Moments Into Money”

June 24, 2016, 8:39 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

NYT on the implications of Sanders’ small-dollar fundraising.

“Clinton’s Cash Stockpile Strategy”

June 24, 2016, 8:18 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

Politico: “Hillary Clinton’s top fundraisers are encountering an unexpected obstacle a month out from the party conventions: big money donors suddenly reluctant to give for fear of running Donald Trump out of the race before he locks up the… Continue reading

More Ari Berman on the VRA and 2016

June 24, 2016, 8:07 amVoting Rights ActDan Tokaji

The subtitle of his Rolling Stone piece claims “it’s easier to buy a gun than vote in many states,” though the link between Shelby County and new voting restrictions in swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin — neither of which… Continue reading

“Donald Trump to Convert $50 Million Loan Into a Contribution”

June 24, 2016, 7:44 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

NYT reports, while Reuters questions whether he really has enough cash to self-fund his campaign.

Today’s Hearing in Republican Party of Louisiana v. FEC

June 24, 2016, 7:36 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

Campaign Legal Center has this two-pager and this post by Tara Malloy on the challenge to BCRA’s soft money ban in which motions for summary judgment are being heard today before a three-judge district court in D.C. (Circuit Judge Sri… Continue reading

Bauer’s “Reform and the ‘Chaos Syndrome,’ Part II”

June 24, 2016, 7:16 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

Bob argues that we need to “think[] in different terms about the point at which the aggressive regulation of politics becomes a kind anti-politics that falls far short of purifying government but helps damage its capacity to function.”

Stanford Law Review’s Election Law Issue

June 24, 2016, 7:09 amelection law bizDan Tokaji

Thanks to Rick for handing me the keys during his trip to Asia. No better place to start than the Stanford Law Review‘s star-studded election law issue, which includes Rick’s article Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First … Continue reading

Ohio’s Confusing Republican Ballot

March 15, 2016, 4:07 pmelection administrationDan Tokaji

Lots of Republicans voting in today’s Ohio primary are confused, and understandably so. The Republican presidential candidates’ names are listed twice on the ballot, once under the heading “For Delegates-at-Large and Alternates-at-Large” and again under “For District Delegates and… Continue reading

Tokaji: Is Ted Cruz Eligible to Be President? Let’s Find Out

February 17, 2016, 6:00 amcampaignsDan Tokaji

Donald Trump has revived the question whether Senator Ted Cruz is ineligible to serve as President due to his birth in Canada. A recent Trump Tweet asserts that Trump has standing and threatens to sue if Senator Cruz doesn’t stop… Continue reading

Tokaji’s “True Threats” in NYU Review of Law & Social Change

December 22, 2015, 10:22 amchicanery, The Voting WarsDan Tokaji

My short piece “True Threats: Voter Intimidation and the Constitution” is now posted on NYURLSC’s online publication The Harbinger. The abstract is here.