“Voters to decide on increased campaign finance disclosures, new limits on contributions”
San Francisco puts
a measure on the November ballot aimed at disclosing the top funders of
committees, rather than just the committee name itself.
Category Archives: campaign finance
New volume of the Harvard Law & Policy Review is out
Chock
full of election-law goodies. Among
other pieces:
Elizabeth Warren, Foreword (on corruption and faith in government)Jeffrey Clements, “But It Will Happen”: A Constitutional Amendment to Secure Political Equality in Election Spending and RepresentationViki Harrison,… Continue reading
Last week at the FEC
Here’s last week’s roundup of the latest at the FEC.
Includes, among other things, an advisory opinion allowing a vendor to offer cybersecurity services to campaigns at low- to no-cost, and an advisory opinion allowing a congressional campaign to distribute… Continue reading
Zombie campaigns
A nice
summary here of some of the various reasons why campaign accounts may stay
open long after the campaigners are out of office.
“Thinking small: Why Bernie Sanders and other 2020 candidates seek low-dollar campaign contributions”
And a nice
summary here of some of the various reasons for seeking grassroots
contributions.
“For Democratic presidential hopeful Steve Bullock, it’s all about the ‘dark money’”
Spotlight
on Bullock’s spotlight on campaign finance and the Copper Kings.
“Taking political financing private may be legal, but looks wrong for Gillum”
One Floridian commentator’s take on the flow of funds between PACs and c4s. FWIW, I’m not sure the particular objection highlighted here makes much sense. It protests the funding of a c4 from donations collected for a PAC, on the… Continue reading
“California lawmakers consider new rules for political ads”
The AP reports
on new proposals for disclaimers on Facebook ads about pending legislation.
“Prosecutors unlikely to charge Trump Org executives, sources say”
Reports from CNN and The Hill on potential campaign-finance charges against executives in the Trump Organization.
FWIW, I fully believe that the sources are being accurately quoted, but I’m always pretty skeptical about underlying representations of whether prosecutions are or… Continue reading
“F.E.C. Allows Security Company to Help 2020 Candidates Defend Campaigns”
NYT:
The Federal Election Commission said on Thursday that a Silicon Valley security company could immediately start helping 2020 presidential candidates defend their campaigns from the kinds of malicious email attacks that Russian hackers exploited in the 2016 election.The… Continue reading
Breaking: Washington State Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Seattle’s Campaign Finance Voucher Program
This seems quite right, and I always thought this challenge was a sure loser.
My New Essay/ Forthcoming Lecture: “Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World”
I have posted this draft on SSRN. I will be delivering a version of this paper as the 2019 Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture at St. Louis University on October 11. There will be a great line up of commentators… Continue reading
“Call Time is a Time Suck for Congress”—Post and New Ciara Torres-Spelliscy Blog
Looking forward to more blog posts at her new site.
“D.C. Circuit Tosses State Republicans’ Challenge of SEC Political Contributions Rule for FINRA Broker-Dealers”
Courthouse News:
The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the New York Republican State Committee’s bid to challenge the Securities Exchange Commission’s rule prohibiting broker-dealers acting as “placement agents” from accepting compensation for soliciting government business from… Continue reading