Category Archives: campaign finance
In New Supreme Court Social Media Case, Echoes of Citizens United on “AntiDistortion” and the Foreign Campaign Spending Ban, with Implications for Shutting Down Tik-Tok
I want to pick up a point first flagged yesterday by Eugene Volokh from yesterday’s decision in Moody v. NetChoice that could have relevance to new legislation, currently being challenged in court, that could ban Tik-Tok as being foreign owned.… Continue reading
“Cash Crunch Squeezes Kennedy Amid Costly Fight for Ballot Spots”
NYT:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent presidential campaign is spending heavily, amassing steep debts and resorting to layoffs as it becomes almost singularly focused on the costly effort of placing his name on state ballots.
The troubles, laid bare in… Continue reading
WRAL Capital Broadcasting Co. 3 Part Series on the New Role of Outside Money in North Carolina Elections
CBC EDITORIAL INVESTIGATES: Outside campaign money dominates N.C. elections (PART ONE; Monday, June 24, 2024)
CBC EDITORIAL INVESTIGATES: Outside groups spending on N.C. campaigns. Who they are? What they want? (PART TWO: Tuesday, June 25, 2024)
CBC EDITORIAL INVESTIGATES: Voters’ … Continue reading
“New Pro-Trump Super PAC Quietly Spends Millions on G.O.P. Ground Game”
NYT:
Republicans have quietly formed a new super PAC that is preparing what appears to be a significant push to persuade former President Donald J. Trump’s voters to vote early or by absentee ballot.
The group, America PAC, was created… Continue reading
“Disappointment and ‘depression’: Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish”
Politico:
Joe Biden’s campaign planned to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash.
Instead, his allies are bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports showed Trump outraising Biden in back-to-back months, hauling… Continue reading
“A Guide to Election Year Activities of Section 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) Organizations”
Steven Sholk’s latest update.
“Trump raised so much last month he erased Biden’s cash advantage”
Politico:
Former President Donald Trump’s huge May fundraising haul erased President Joe Biden’s longstanding cash advantage as the two gear up for a rematch.
Trump’s campaign had $116.6 million in the bank at the end of May, compared to $91.6… Continue reading
“Timothy Mellon, Secretive Donor, Gives $50 Million to Pro-Trump Group”
NYT:
Timothy Mellon, a reclusive heir to a Gilded Age fortune, donated $50 million to a super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump the day after the former president was convicted of 34 felonies, according to new federal filings, an enormous… Continue reading
“Dark ‘Oro y Plata’ in Montana: The Green Amendment’s Defense of Campaign Finance Transparency”
Lucas Della Ventura has written this article, 48 Wm. & Mary Env’t L. & Pol’y Rev. 385 (2024). Here is the abstract:
In the post–Citizens United dark money age, state disclosure regulations are the last line of defense for… Continue reading
“Mystery fundraising firm takes in millions from the Trump campaign”
NBC News:
Former President Donald Trump’s political operation has routed more than $3 million so far this year through a Delaware limited liability company whose owners are not publicly disclosed, according to campaign finance records — a strategy that… Continue reading
“Mini Madoff” gets 18 months for fake Super PAC (and credit card fraud)
Christopher Richardson was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in March in the Americans for Progressive Action affair.
Sentences for campaign finance fraud charges seem to be of interest lately.
“En Banc Court Hears First Amendment Challenge to Campaign Finance Restriction”
Trane Robinson reviews arguments in the Sixth Circuit’s National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC case, about limits on political party expenditures coordinated with particular candidates. It’s an issue that’s been in the deregulatory community’s sights for a while now, and… Continue reading
House Judiciary on Manhattan DA and Trump prosecution
The House Judiciary committee held a hearing this morning on the NY case against Donald Trump, with a witness list including FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor, as well as Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, Ambassador Norm Eisen, and Elizabeth Price Foley. Testimony … Continue reading