Category Archives: John Edwards

“Bread, Circuses, and the Edwards Prosecution”

May 9, 2012, 10:47 amchicanery, Department of Justice, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Important Scott Horton piece at Harper‘s: The DOJ’s public-integrity prosecutions have careened in recent years from one humiliation to the next, with little thought for the damage the department is doing to the law or to its own reputation. First… Continue reading

“Nick Baldick: 527 backing John Edwards in 2008 kept clean”

May 8, 2012, 8:53 amcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein reports from the Edwards trial.

“Could John Edwards have been charged with something else?”

May 3, 2012, 2:48 pmcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Allen Dickerson writes at Campaigns & Elections.

“The John Edwards trial: where it is; where it’s going”

April 29, 2012, 8:53 pmJohn EdwardsRick Hasen

MSNBC reports.

“Edwards Trial Could Be New Blow to Campaign Finance System”

April 24, 2012, 9:28 amcampaign finance, John EdwardsRick Hasen

The National Journal reports.

“John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law”

April 24, 2012, 9:25 amcampaign finance, John EdwardsRick Hasen

PBS News Hour reports.

Brad Smith on John Edwards Prosecution

April 24, 2012, 7:44 amcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Here.

Why It Probably Doesn’t Matter What Bunny Mellon Thought in John Edwards Trial

April 23, 2012, 9:34 amcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Via Political Wire comes this Walter Shapiro TNR piece suggesting the prosecution will prove the Bunny Mellon did not know about the Edwards affair when she gave the money to Edwards. Shapiro asks: “If Bunny Mellon did not know about… Continue reading

“6 Things to Watch for at John Edwards Trial”

April 23, 2012, 9:19 amcampaign finance, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Josh Gerstein reports for Politico.

John Edwards, Tom DeLay, Don Siegelman and the Criminalization of Politics

April 23, 2012, 7:56 ambribery, campaign finance, campaigns, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

My new Slate jurisprudence column begins: “If politics makes for strange bedfellows, so too it seems do political prosecutions.” Another snippet: It is no wonder then that liberals and conservatives have rallied around these politicians, despite the fact that most… Continue reading

“High stakes for John Edwards as trial begins”

April 23, 2012, 7:23 amcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

CBS News reports.

John Edwards Trial Previews

April 22, 2012, 1:16 pmcampaign finance, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

NYT: Edwards Trial Set to Begin, Reopening a Story of a Derailed Political Career Reuters: Former presidential hopeful John Edwards faces trial CBS News: John Edwards Incredible Gamble My Slate piece from last year on the Edwards charges is here. … Continue reading

“The Questionable Prosecution of John Edwards”

April 19, 2012, 7:08 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, chicanery, John EdwardsRick Hasen

National Review editorializes.

“Regular folks vs. John Edwards; A jury is likely to weigh what Edwards did in the Rielle Hunter affair much more harshly than the Federal Election Commission”

April 15, 2012, 7:45 pmcampaign finance, John EdwardsRick Hasen

Great Stephen Weissman oped in the LA Times. It concludes: “Whatever the verdict, the Edwards trial will highlight the need to remedy weak FEC campaign law enforcement, which now only encourages campaigns to push the envelope. There are long-standing proposals… Continue reading