You can read the order here. This order too may now be brought back to the 7th Circuit, where I believe it will have a fair chance of being stayed on appeal.  It is highly unusual for a federal… Continue reading

Monica Davey for the NYT: An investigation into possible campaign finance violations involving conservative groups in Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign committee has become entangled in back-to-back federal court rulings on whether it should continue.

Via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, you can find the unanimous order of a three judge 7th Circuit panel (Wood, Bauer and Easterbrook) at this link.  [My earlier thoughts on the importance of the district court’s ruling for campaign… Continue reading

Prosecutors to 7th Circuit: Attention now shifts to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The prosecutors told that court Wednesday that Randa’s order to permanently destroy the documents they had gathered was inappropriate because it was only a preliminary ruling.… Continue reading

Politico: “Rep. Michael Grimm is expected to be indicted by the U.S. attorney in New York, according to the New York Republican’s lawyer. Grimm has been under investigation by federal authorities for alleged campaign finance violations…The Justice Department was… Continue reading

NYT: In the new filing, the prosecutors, Carrie H. Cohen and Paul M. Krieger, also alleged that Mr. D’Souza had instructed one of the people he had asked to contribute, Tyler Vawser, a former assistant, to lie about his donation.… Continue reading

Talk about NYT burying the lede: Prosecutors also said they had obtained a copy of a recording made surreptitiously last October by the husband of a woman Mr. D’Souza was involved with romantically around the time of the donations, when… Continue reading

NYT reports.