Category Archives: campaign finance
“End Citizens United PAC wants to make its name a reality”
MSNBC:
The group plans on setting up an independent expenditure arm sometime early next year to financially back the candidates through initiatives including television ads, direct mailers and polling.
While End Citizens United also hopes to help enact campaign finance… Continue reading
“Google could ‘rig the 2016 election,’ researcher says”
CNN:
The world’s most-used search engine is so powerful and national elections are so tight, that even a tiny tweak in Google’s (GOOGL, Tech30) secret algorithm could swing the 2016 presidential election, according to Robert… Continue reading
“Hillary Clinton campaign fundraisers: Cash bar only?”
Squeeze every hard money dollar.
“Why Campaigns Have the Edge Over Super PACs on TV”
“Proposed electioneering rule addresses political attack ads”
Bozeman Daily Chronicle:
As part of the state’s new election disclosure law, Montana’s commissioner of political practices has proposed a rule aimed at attack ads masquerading as educational.
It has become common for “social welfare” organizations to send postcards… Continue reading
“How Should We Celebrate 50 Years of Voting Rights? By Anticipating and Preempting Future Challenges”
Franita Tolson writes for ACS Blog.
“Facing Money Gap, Hillary Clinton Slowly Warms to ‘Super PAC’ Gifts”
NYT:
Hillary Rodham Clinton recently spent four days straight scurrying across the Western United States, mingling for hours at a time with hundreds of Democratic donors from the Rockies to Portland, Ore., from Southern California to the southern tip… Continue reading
#SCOTUS Could Kill What Remains of McCain-Feingold in New Soft Money Case
My new oped at The NLJ.
“Out of the dark: Attorney challenges Disclose Act, Commissioner Motl”
Missoula Independent:
James Bopp, the Indiana attorney who won the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case, interrogated Montana’s top political cop for nearly seven hours last week, comparing Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl to a racist… Continue reading
“Taking control: Montana elections getting new disclosure rules”
“Professor Lessig’s Conception of the ‘Referendum Presidency'”
“Presidential Candidates, Each Sold Separately”
“The McCain-Feingold Act May Doom Itself”
I have written this oped for the National Law Journal. It begins:
Did the congressional drafters of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law build within it the seeds for its own destruction?
Tucked within the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (the formal… Continue reading