Category Archives: campaign finance
“CFI Launches 2018 Web Tool For Independent Spending in Primaries”
Release:
Independent expenditures (IEs) will be playing a significant role again in select House and Senate primaries leading up to the midterm election. And the Campaign Finance Institute will once again be tracking that spending through a primary tracking tool… Continue reading
“Donald Trump, John Edwards, and the Mistress Loophole; Maybe Rudy Giuliani knows what he’s doing after all.”
Stephen Weissman for the American Interest:
One can imagine how Lowell’s argument would be grasped by counsel defending Cohen and Trump. So would other statements about the Edwards case by former FEC Commissioners. Before the trial, Thomas and another Democratic… Continue reading
“Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels”
President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
Everything… Continue reading
“Google sets new rules for U.S. election ads”
Axios:
The gritty details: Under Google’s new rules, people or groups who want to advertise in elections will have to go through a process that includes producing a “government-issued ID” as well as other information, like a Federal Election Commission… Continue reading
“Another Trump Effect on Midterms: More Small Donor Money for Democrats”
“The Legal Issues Raised by the Stormy Daniels Payment, Explained”
Charlie Savage and Ken Vogel for the NYT.
“Regulating Campaign Finance through Legislative Recusal Rules”
Gene Mazo has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Timothy K. Kuhner and Eugene D. Mazo (eds.), Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America). Here is the abstract:
Each time reformers have sought to regulate campaign finance by… Continue reading
“Rudy Giuliani May Have Just Implicated President Trump In Serious Campaign Finance Violations”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Donald Trump’s new lawyer Rudy Giuliani took to Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Wednesday night to defend the president from the ongoing Mueller investigation and to calm the waters for the… Continue reading
Giuliani Says Trump Repaid $130K Payment to Cohen for Stormy Daniels Agreement, Raising New Questions About Campaign Finance Violations
I’m exploring them in this Twitter thread.
Breaking: Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Montana Campaign Contributions Case, Teeing Up Issue for Possible Supreme Court Review
Back in October, I wrote the following:
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In Major Victory in Case with National Significance, Ninth Circuit on 2-1 Vote Upholds Montana Contribution Limits; Judge Bea Would Appear to Hold *All* Limits Unconstitutional
Posted on October 23, … Continue reading
“Secret Donors Lose Round as Court Expedites FEC Disclosure Case”
Bloomberg BNA:
The federal appeals court in Washington will quickly review whether to keep secret the identity of “John Doe” plaintiffs trying to prevent the Federal Election Commission from revealing their role in campaign spending.
Briefing in the case, known… Continue reading
“Open-seat House hopefuls spend millions”
Open Secrets reports:
The growing number of departures by House incumbents this cycle is leaving a Wild West of open-seat races, some of which feature deep-pocketed candidates elbowing for a two-year stint in Congress.
The top self-funded candidates so far… Continue reading
“New Report on Impact of Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program on Candidates’ Ability to Rely on Constituents for Fundraising”
Release:
Today, Free Speech For People released a new issue report on The Impact of Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program on Candidates’ Ability to Rely on Constituents for Fundraising.
In 2015, Seattle voters enacted a novel democracy voucher program for… Continue reading