“How to Build a Campaign Finance Case Against Donald Trump and Michael Cohen”
Liam Brennan, who prosecuted former Ct. governor John Rowland, has this Slate piece.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“EXCLUSIVE: Robert Mercer backed a secretive group that worked with Facebook, Google to target anti-Muslim ads at swing voters”
Great work by Open Secrets:
As the final weeks of the 2016 elections ticked down, voters in swing states like Nevada and North Carolina began seeing eerie promotional travel ads as they scrolled through their Facebook feeds or clicked through… Continue reading
“Issue One and Campaign Legal Center file IRS complaint against major ‘dark money’ group”
Release:
Today, Issue One and the Campaign Legal Center called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to enforce penalties against Americans for Job Security — one of the top spenders of political “dark money” in recent years — for failing… Continue reading
“Beyond Repair: FEC Reform and Deadlock Deference”
Dan Tokaji has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Democracy by the People). Here is the abstract:
Composed of six commissioners, three aligned with each major party, the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) consistently stalemates on critical questions of campaign finance… Continue reading
“Public Support for Campaign Finance Reform: The Role of Policy Narratives, Cultural Predispositions, and Political Knowledge in Collective Policy Preference Formation”
Paul D. Jorgensen , Geoboo Song, and Michael D. Jones have writen this article for Social Science Quarterly. Here is the abstract:
Objective
We use the variation in public support for campaign finance reform (CFR) to determine factors important to… Continue reading
“Don’t let big and dark money ‘drown out the truth and drown out your voice’”
“CFI Launches Groundbreaking Database of 50 State Laws”
Release:
he Campaign Finance Institute is pleased to release a groundbreaking new tool, “CFI’s Historical Database of State Campaign Finance Laws”. The database covers all of the states’ campaign finance laws every two years since 1996. It is… Continue reading
“Companies can expect political money grab ahead of midterms”
Bruce Freed oped in The Hill:
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to tell the implications of Democrat Conor Lamb’s special election victory just a few weeks ago for congressional races in November: Corporations should expect a hypercharged grab for… Continue reading
“Arizona lawmakers favor anonymity in political spending”
Arizona Republic:
Nine of 10 Tempe voters called for lifting the curtain on secretive money in city elections, but lawmakers this week passed a bill that would stop that. The measure now goes to the governor, who was a … Continue reading
NY: “Appeal to end ‘LLC loophole’ is rejected”
Albany Times-Union:
In a four-to-one decision on Thursday, an appellate court in Albany upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a lawsuit to close the controversial “LLC loophole” that allows huge political giving in New York elections.
In the majority opinion,… Continue reading
“NRA Says It Receives Foreign Funds, But None Goes To Election Work”
NPR:
The National Rifle Association acknowledged that it accepts foreign donations but says it does not use them for election work — even as federal investigators look into the role the NRA might have played in Russia’s attack on the… Continue reading
“DOJ & FEC Complaints Filed Against Cambridge Analytica for Violating Prohibition on Election-Related Activities by Foreign Nationals in Work for Trump, Others”
“Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns”
WaPo:
Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws… Continue reading
“Fund-Raiser Held Out Access to Trump as a Prize for Prospective Clients”
NYT:
For Elliott Broidy, Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign represented an unparalleled political and business opportunity.
An investor and defense contractor, Mr. Broidy became a top fund-raiser for Mr. Trump’s campaign when most elite Republican donors were keeping their distance,… Continue reading