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

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

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

Bauer blogs.

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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

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

“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.

First it was donuts vs. bagels. Now this. Good thing the FEC doesn’t enforce any laws essential to our democracy.

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

Bloomberg BNA: (update: also available here without a paywall) Republicans on the Federal Election Commission have hinted for the first time in more than five years that they may be ready to write new rules governing corporate campaign money in… Continue reading

Bauer blogs on the FEC.