“New Report Finds $39.7 Million Spent on Campaigns for State Supreme Court Judgeships in 2017-2018, $10.8 Million of it by Special Interest Groups”
Brennan Center release.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“‘Dark money’ ties raise questions for GOP Sen. Ernst of Iowa”
AP:
An outside group founded by top political aides to Sen. Joni Ernst has worked closely with the Iowa Republican to raise money and boost her reelection prospects, a degree of overlap that potentially violates the law, documents obtained by… Continue reading
4th Circuit Unanimously Holds Maryland Law Requiring Online Platforms to Post Information About Political Advertisers Violates the First Amendment
You can find the opinion here. Importantly, the lawsuit did not challenge that part of the law requiring the purchasers of online advertising to make certain disclosures and disclaimers. The lawsuit challenged only the portion putting obligations on “online platforms”… Continue reading
Is Mike Bloomberg Breaking the Law by Continuing to Control Bloomberg News While a Presidential Candidate?[UPDATE: Probably Not]
News item:
Michael Bloomberg temporarily had a tiny but extremely questionable advantage in the 2020 presidential race: if you typed “Mike” into one of his company’s roughly 325,000 news terminals around the globe, you were redirected to his campaign site, … Continue reading
“Indictment Details How Emirates Sought Influence in 2016 Campaign”
NYT:
The indictment accused Mr. Nader of funneling more than $3.5 million in illicit campaign donations through Mr. Khawaja to buy access and influence in Washington — initially with Mrs. Clinton and her Democratic allies during the 2016 campaign, and… Continue reading
New DOJ Indictment Alleges Millions of Dollars in Foreign Money Illegally Funneled to Support Hillary Clinton in 2016
The indictment includes George Nader, who appears to have been seeking influence in both the Trump and Clinton campaigns (and is now being held on child pornography charges):
Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed against the CEO of an online… Continue reading
“Campaign finance system and election overhaul coming to New York”
NYDN:
The panel tasked with overhauling New York’s campaign finance laws and creating a public matching funds system from scratch released its final report Sunday evening — a day before it was due.The report from the nine-member Public Campaign Financing… Continue reading
“Supreme Court Acts in Campaign Finance and Libel Cases”
“Putin’s Revenge: The Foreign Threat to American Campaign Finance Law”
Tony Gaughan has posted this draft on SSRN (Howard Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
When Congress established federal contribution limits in 1974, it also instituted a complete ban on foreign campaign contributions. In adopting the post-Watergate reforms, Congress… Continue reading
Giuliani Being Investigated for Illegal Foreign Campaign Contributions and Illegal Conduit Contributions
Among other things, per WSJ:
The subpoenas offer the clearest indication yet that federal prosecutors are examining Mr. Giuliani’s consulting work. Among the entities named in the subpoenas are Giuliani Partners, a security-consulting firm founded by Mr. Giuliani in… Continue reading
Breaking: Supreme Court, Ducking Major Confrontation Over Campaign Finance Limits for Now, Reverses 9th Circuit Ruling Upholding Alaska Campaign Contribution Limits
I’ve been keeping my eye on Thompson v. Hebdon v. Hebdon for a long time. In this case, leading Supreme Court attorney Paul Clement filed a petition for the Supreme Court to take a case challenging Alaska’s campaign contribution limits… Continue reading
“Do not stifle shareholder voices”
Bruce Freed FT oped.
“Ending Foreign-Influenced Corporate Spending in U.S. Elections”
“A Trump Administration Plan that Could Boost Corporate ‘Dark Money’ in Elections”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes.