Big CLC Complaint Against Trump Campaign Using Parscale Firm to Hide Recipients of Campaign Expenditures
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Category Archives: campaign finance
“Private-Equity Executives Pour $92 Million Into 2020 Races Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, who gave $10 million to a group aiming to defend the Senate’s Republican majority, leads political spending in the industry”
Big (Quixotic?) Push to Get Supreme Court to Hold that Congress Has the Constitutional Power to Outlaw Super PACs
The cert petition in Lieu v. FEC is designed to get the Supreme Court to address an issue addressed by the D.C. Circuit in the earlier SpeechNow case but never addressed by the Supreme Court: is it constitutional for Congress… Continue reading
“A Company Backs a Cause. It Funds a Politician Who Doesn’t. What Gives?”
NYT Dealbook:
Walmart calls its employees “heroes” for putting their health at risk to work during the pandemic. AT&T champions L.G.B.T.Q. rights. Microsoft is undertaking one of the country’s most ambitious corporate efforts to eliminate its carbon emissions… Continue reading
“How Outside Money Makes Governing More Difficult”
Mike Norton and Rick Pildes with a new ELJ piece:
Little empirical attention has been paid to the possible relationship between the sources of money in campaigns and whether political parties within the legislature are more unified or fragmented.… Continue reading
“What the Twitter Hack Revealed: An Election System Teeming With Risks”
NYT:
Over the past year government officials have raced to help states replace voting machines that leave no paper trail, and to harden vulnerable online voter registration systems that many fear Russia, or others, could hijack to trigger chaos on… Continue reading
“Can Canadians help dump Trump or beat Biden? What U.S. campaign laws say”
“Newsroom or PAC? Liberal group muddies online information wars”
Politico:
The articles and Facebook ad dollars look like the efforts of a run-of-the-mill political group. But they are actually from a news outlet: CourierNewsroom.com, also known as Courier, which was created and funded by the Democratic-aligned digital organization… Continue reading
“20 groups from across political spectrum urge Donald Trump and Joe Biden to reveal information about their campaign fundraisers”
Good idea from Issue One.
“New GOP-aligned group in Kansas has Kris Kobach as apparent target”
CNN:
An anonymous group with ties to Republicans has just emerged with the apparent aim of targeting Senate candidate Kris Kobach of Kansas, according to sources familiar with the effort.Kobach is an anti-immigration firebrand and voter-fraud crusader whose primary… Continue reading
“Biden Outraises Trump for Second Straight Month, With $141 Million June Haul”
NYT:
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the Democratic Party outraised President Trump and the Republicans for the second straight month in June, announcing a record haul of $141 million on Wednesday night only hours after Mr.… Continue reading
“Rep. Katie Porter flexes political power with new fundraising committee to support progressive candidates”
OC Register:
As she heads into the heart of her first re-election campaign, Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine is quickly becoming a power broker in the House of Representatives.She’s a Democrat in a flip district that still leans slightly… Continue reading
Barr Tried to Interfere with Michael Cohen Campaign Finance Case in SDNY, With Implications for the President’s Own Liability
NYT:
But Mr. Barr spent weeks in the spring of 2019 questioning the prosecutors over their decision to charge Mr. Cohen with violating campaign finance laws, according to people briefed on the matter.At one point during the discussions, Mr. Barr… Continue reading