Category Archives: campaign finance
Supreme Court Will Consider Whether to Take Major Montana Campaign Contributions Case at Its January 4 Conference, A Case Which Could Pave the Way for Killing Federal Campaign Contribution Limits
According to the docket.
It could also be when the Court considers whether to take the Austin campaign finance case.
As I wrote in Slate back in September:
As Common Cause’s Steve Spaulding notes, “Kavanaugh himself acknowledges in the… Continue reading
Justice Kennedy Stands By the Correctness of His Citizens United Opinion
NLJ:
When asked if, in the wake of the huge influx of money into elections, he had any regrets about his majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC, he said the decision “stands for itself.”
“It’s true there’s a problem… Continue reading
Ninth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Rejects Limits on Non-Resident Contributions to Alaska Elections, Upholds Other Alaska Campaign Finance Limits
You can find the opinion in Thompson v. Hebdon at this link.
The court majority (Callahan, Bea) held that the part of the Alaska law limiting out-of-state residents from contributing more than $3,000 per year to Alaska elections violated… Continue reading
“Fixing Campaign Finance Needs to Be at the Center of Democracy Reform”
“N.Y. Democrats Vowed to Get Big Money Out of Politics. Will Big Money Interfere?”
NYT:
In the months before the Nov. 6 elections, New York’s Senate Democrats received $25,000 from a mysterious group of five donors, with names like 2332 7 Ave L.L.C., 207 Silver Lane L.L.C. and 228 W 132 L.L.C.
The… Continue reading
“Democrats plan ‘aggressive’ oversight of Federal Election Commission”
CPI:
For most of this decade, Congress has all but ignored the perpetually gridlocked Federal Election Commission, which exists to enforce and regulate the nation’s campaign finance laws.
No longer, two Democratic congressional representatives tell the Center for Public Integrity… Continue reading
“GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson is winning a medal. But are Republicans losing the political money war?”
CPI:
But Adelson’s Presidential Medal of Freedom — which liberals are mocking as an award for the $113 million Adelson and her billionaire casino mogul husband, Sheldon Adelson, contributed to conservative candidates, super PACs and other political committees during the… Continue reading
“The Inexplicable Absence of the Voters in the Campaign Finance Debate”
Elizabeth Reese has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Houston Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The rich are getting richer, and money talks. Since Citizens United, there has been widespread outrage about the role of money in politics. Advocates… Continue reading
“Evaluating the Seattle Democracy Voucher Experiment”
Jen Heerwig for Sludge, with the subhead: “A 2017 program showed ‘democracy vouchers’ for Seattle elections doubled the amount of users over traditional cash donors, and that participants were more representative of the city’s population in terms of income,… Continue reading
“Miriam Adelson gave the GOP millions. Trump is giving her the Medal of Freedom.”
WaPo:
In its news release, the White House cited Adelson’s research in narcotic addiction, her founding of two centers to fight substance abuse and her support of Jewish organizations. The release does not mention that the Adelsons also contributed at … Continue reading
“An Open-and-Shut Violation of Campaign-Finance Law”
Bob Bauer for The Atlantic:
It is a strange turn of events when a president famous for denouncing “fake news” is discovered to have entered into an agreement with a media organization to finance the concealment of very real but… Continue reading
“The increasing evidence suggesting Trump violated campaign-finance law”
Philip Bump for WaPo.