Category Archives: federal election commission
“Twitter rants against NRA, Kochs, Trump retweeted by top FEC Dem”
Retweets by Ann Ravel cause controversy.
“Statement of Chairman Bradley A. Smith and President David Keating on FEC Commissioner Weintraub’s ‘Corporate Political Spending and Foreign Influence’ Forum Published on June 23, 2016 “
June 23 Forum on Corporate Political Spending and Foreign Influence at the FEC
Announcement via email:
Join Commissioner Ellen L. Weintraub of the Federal Election Commission as she brings together some of the nation’s top scholars, public-interest professionals, and attorneys to discuss some of the hottest issues in campaign finance surrounding corporate political… Continue reading
Minnesota Democrats File FEC Rulemaking Petition to Loosen Rules Governing State and Local Party Fundraising
You can read the petition, written by Neil Reiff and colleagues, at this link.
Given the ideological division at the FEC, it will be Republican commissioners who will support this. What the Democratic commissioners do is less certain. And… Continue reading
“CREW Sues FEC Over Murray Energy Indecision”
Release:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) today for failing to enforce its own regulations by refusing to investigate a 2012 CREW complaint against Murray Energy and its CEO Robert Murray… Continue reading
“Ominous Uncertainty at the FEC, The Sequel”
“Democracy 21 and the Campaign Legal Center Challenge Failure of FEC to Adopt Regulations to Implement Restricted Political Party Accounts”
“Deadlock and Ominous Uncertainty at the FEC”
Bauer:
The FEC has once again deadlocked on an enforcement case and left an important question dangerously open. Months ago, the FEC could do nothing useful with a case about the use of LLCs to make contributions. Now it… Continue reading
“FEC Deadlocks on Murray Energy Coercion Case”
Bloomberg BNA:
The Federal Election Commission deadlocked on whether to investigate charges that coal company owner Robert Murray violated campaign finance laws by coercing employees to make campaign contributions, according to documents released May 20.
The action on Murray… Continue reading
“Death threats directed at elections regulator”
Must-read Dave Levinthal:
But Ravel’s statement — just finding it on the FEC’s website in no small feat — didn’t disappear into the Internet’s bowels as bureaucratic missives often do.
Instead, in a sign of how toxic American politics… Continue reading
Quote of the Day: Dysfunctional FEC Edition
“He was consequential like a sledgehammer was consequential…he did his best to undermine the law.”
—FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub on Don McGahn, former FEC Commissioner and currently Donald Trump’s election lawyer.
“F.E.C. Tries to Bridge a Gap Between ‘A’ and ‘The’”
First it was donuts vs. bagels.
Now this.
Good thing the FEC doesn’t enforce any laws essential to our democracy.
“DOJ Discounts FEC ‘Routine Deadlocks'”
Bloomberg BNA:
Federal prosecutors discounted the legal effects of “routine partisan deadlocks” at the Federal Election Commission in a new court filing in the Department of Justice’s long-running criminal case against former aides to the 2012 Ron Paul presidential campaign… Continue reading