“How campaign finance law makes senators early lame ducks”
David Karol at The Monkey Cage.
Category Archives: campaign finance
“California lawmaker seeks tax on independent political spending”
LAT reports.
“Groups to Obama: Act Now to Curb Pay-to-Play”
Public Citizen Press Release:
Saying that President Barack Obama can singlehandedly curb the pernicious influence of money in politics, more than 50 organizations today called on the him to issue an executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their… Continue reading
“G.O.P. Race Starts in Lavish Haunts of Rich Donors”
Fascinating NYT A1.
“Originalist or Original: The Difficulties of Reconciling Citizens United with Corporate Law History”
Leo Strine and Nicholas Walter have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Citizens United has been the subject of a great deal of commentary, but one important aspect of the decision that has not been explored in… Continue reading
“U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear ProtectMarriage.Com v Padilla”
BAN reports on the cert. denial in the campaign finance disclosure case stemming from California’s Prop. 8.
“Jeb Bush exploits non-candidate status to rewrite campaign finance playbook”
News from the pre-presidential campaign trail.
“Justice Department ramps up scrutiny of candidates and independent groups”
WaPo:
The Justice Department is stepping up scrutiny of the increasingly cozy ties between candidates and their outside allies, a move that could jolt the freewheeling campaign-finance atmosphere ahead of the 2016 elections….Anthony Herman, another former FEC general counsel,… Continue reading
“Lawmakers seek reform for Maine’s Clean Election law”
“GOP Lawmakers Seek to Jump-Start Long-Running IRS Investigation; Concerns raised at House hearing about possible IRS wrongdoing during congressional probe”
WSJ:
The new Republican-controlled Congress is trying to pump fresh life into a long-running probe of alleged targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service.
Seeking to jump-start the stalled inquiry, GOP lawmakers raised concerns at a House… Continue reading
“New IRS Rules on Dark Money Likely Won’t Be Ready Before 2016 Election”
“The Difficulties of Reconciling Citizens United with Corporate Law History”
“The Common Cause Report On the ‘Crusade’ Against Campaign Finance Regulation”
“New Charges for Group That Disrupted Supreme Court”
AP:
Prosecutors took a hard line Thursday with demonstrators who participated in a rare disruption inside the U.S. Supreme Court, adding additional charges against them and saying disrupting the high court is different from other protests in the… Continue reading