The NY Post discusses some questionable state-PAC spending on a federal race. A related Politico story notes that de Blasio is claiming that his presidential campaign launch video was not a presidential campaign expense.

The WSJ covers the House Oversight letter.

Following on this story, the letter is here.

Paul Ryan in Just Security on the announced end of the Stormy Daniels campaign finance case.

And maybe there’s an explanation after all.

Relatedly, the latest proposed amendment to overturn Citizens United was filed yesterday.  It would ban private funding of support for or opposition to candidates if the funding isn’t a donation to a candidate’s campaign.  I’m not a fan.

The Campaign Finance Institute parses the 2Q returns.

Interesting. And according to the story, unusual: Neither Jeff Sessions, Loretta Lynch, nor Eric Holder—the three prior attorneys general—made payments to either party committees or senators ahead of confirmation hearings and votes. Holder gave $250 to the Democratic Senatorial… Continue reading

A new paper about Seattle’s campaign finance voucher program, from Brian McCabe and Jennifer Heerwig.  I’m looking forward to reading this one. The abstract: In this paper, we evaluate whether an innovative new campaign finance program in Seattle, Washington shifted… Continue reading