Category Archives: campaign finance
“Trump’s Policies Are a Boon to the Super Rich. So Where Are All the Seven-Figure Checks?”
NYT:
Mr. Trump is hardly lacking for cash; he has received huge numbers of small donations online from a fervent grass-roots base, and he raised a jaw-dropping $165 million in July for his campaign and the two fund-raising committees that… Continue reading
“Is Jared Kushner Illegally Soliciting Campaign Help From Kanye West?”
Paul Ryan analysis.
Is Kanye West Breaking the Law By Coordinating with the Trump Campaign While Running for President? Perhaps
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about whether Kanye West, who is running for President and getting on the ballots in at least a few states, is somehow breaking campaign finance law by doing so given the… Continue reading
“Bribery Charges in Ohio Illuminate the Dangers of Dark Money”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for the Brennan Center.
Ohio: “LaRose favors bill targeting dark money; Secretary of State backs bipartisan measure requiring disclosure.”
Big CLC Complaint Against Trump Campaign Using Parscale Firm to Hide Recipients of Campaign Expenditures
Start here:
https://twitter.com/brendan_fischer/status/1288101435062788097
“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