“How elected officials exploit a campaign finance loophole to raise big piles of cash”
Kyle Whitmire for AL.com.
Category Archives: campaign finance
Gora in Adler’s Business and the Roberts Court
Jonathan Adler has edited this volume for OUP which has a great lineup of writers. Among them is one of my favorites (though we often disagree), Joel Gora, who wrote a chapter on the Roberts Court and Citizens United. Here… Continue reading
“George Soros Rises Again”
Politico:
George Soros is back.
The billionaire investor, who scaled back his political giving after a then-unprecedented $27 million spending spree to try to defeat George Bush in 2004, has quietly reemerged as a leading funder of Democratic politics… Continue reading
“Perkins Coie’s Myriad Roles Raise DNC Conflict Questions”
“DNC sought to hide details of Clinton funding deal”
Vogel:
But the emails show that officials and lawyers at the DNC and the Clinton campaign became frantic after POLITICO’s May 2 story, which led to substantial follow-up coverage that put the Clinton campaign and the DNC on the defensive.… Continue reading
Read the St. Petersburg Ordinance Set Up as Challenge to Legality of Super PACs
Release:
Last night, on Thursday 21, 2016, the St. Petersburg City Council voted 6-1 to move forward for consideration our proposed ordinance to abolish super PACs and ban foreign corporate money in local elections. The vote followed passionate statements… Continue reading
“In Hacked D.N.C. Emails, a Glimpse of How Big Money Works”
NYT:
But the leaked cache also included thousands of emails exchanged by Democratic officials and party fund-raisers, revealing in rarely seen detail the elaborate, ingratiating and often bluntly transactional exchanges necessary to harvest hundreds of millions of dollars from… Continue reading
Quote of the Day
“As some of you may know, I support Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him. And Bernie has already succeeded in so many ways. He proved that Citizens United is in fact not a necessary evil, and by the way,… Continue reading
“A Legal Note from the World of Conventions”
“Perkins Coie Lawyer’s Advice Helped Spark Democratic Division”
American Lawyer:
Perkins Coie’s Marc Elias, who has juggled legal roles for both the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, saw the intersecting interests of both clients unexpectedly become public on Friday with the leak of… Continue reading
“U.S. attorney opens probe of Malloy’s 2014 campaign fundraising”
CT Mirror:
The federal investigation is a major political complication for Malloy at time when he is in the spotlight as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association and a campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton. She will become the first… Continue reading
“Convention Delegates Win Settlement in Free Speech Lawsuit Against Federal Election Commission”
Release:
Two delegates to the Republican National Convention settled a lawsuit on Friday against the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Two Unnamed Plaintiffs v. FEC. These delegates were represented by attorneys from the Pillar of Law Institute, which was also… Continue reading
“Leaked DNC emails reveal the inner workings of the party’s finance operation”
WaPo:
The DNC emails show how the party has tried to leverage its greatest weapon — the president — as it entices wealthy backers to bankroll the convention and other needs. At times, DNC staffers used language in their pitches… Continue reading
“Presidential Election Will Shape Supreme Court, and National Policies, for Years to Come”
Jess Bravin for the WSJ:
A single Democratic appointment to the Supreme Court could doom the 2010 Citizens United decision, which struck down restrictions on corporate and union political spending. That ruling and other opinions invalidating campaign finance laws came… Continue reading