CNBC: When President Donald Trump‘s longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller decided to leave his White House job last fall, many in the West Wing wondered how the president would manage without his personal security chief-turned-confidant, who had been working for… Continue reading

WaPo reports.

Michael Gilbert has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Chicago Legal Forum). Here is the abstract: This essay makes two claims: transparency in government causes the very corruption it aims to prevent, and the problem is universal. Some… Continue reading

Arizona Capitol Times reports.  

CPI: Democrats love decrying “dark money” — political contributions for which the source of funds is a mystery. But that isn’t stopping them from accepting “dark money” themselves or making it difficult to determine the original underwriter of… Continue reading

Mathias Hong has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: If freedom of speech protects a marketplace of ideas – what is its proper currency? Is it only the force of the arguments brought forth – or is… Continue reading

Reuters: A federal appeals court on Thursday threw out a constitutional challenge by the conservative group Citizens United to New York state’s requirement that registered charities disclose their donors annually. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy at the Brennan Center.