Category Archives: federal election commission
“Campaign Finance FEC Won’t Appeal Ruling on Presidential Debates”
Bloomberg BNA:
The Federal Election Commission won’t appeal a federal judge’s ruling that challenged the FEC rules for presidential debates.
The decision announced by the FEC March 8 means the FEC will have to respond to the ruling by Judge… Continue reading
“GOP commissioner: Trump poised to revamp election agency”
Illuminating video interview with FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman.
I earlier interviewed the commissioner for the ELB Podcast.
FEC Commissioner Weintraub Responds to OMB Query on Proposal to Abolish EAC [Corrected]
Letter:
This bill would make our elections less safe, less secure, and less fair, and could reduce the faith of the American people in their elections’ results. In these unsettling times, surely public officials in all branches and at all… Continue reading
“The FEC’s Open Hostilities, Dysfunction, and Intimidation Foreshadowed the Trump Era”
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP.
Remember When I Said FEC Commissioner Ravel Could Be Replaced with a Non-Democrat Deregulationist?
I got a lot of pushback for making that suggestion, as in this NYT piece. People said I was giving him ideas, but I have no doubt this occurred to them before I mentioned it.
But now HuffPo reports… Continue reading
“Bob Bauer Agrees With Us About Commissioner Weintraub, But Doesn’t Want to Do Anything About It”
“Republican Election Commissioners Just Released Key Legal Documents—Nearly a Decade Too Late”
Andy Kroll for Mother Jones:
A strange thing happened last week at the Federal Election Commission, the nation’s watchdog for campaigns and elections. On Friday evening, the FEC’s three Republican members quietly released a slew of missing legal memos related… Continue reading
“Judge Won’t Order FEC to Pursue Conservative Nonprofit”
Bloomberg BNA:
A federal judge has refused to order the Federal Election Commission to disclose information about or take further enforcement action against a nonprofit group that spent millions of dollars on ads opposing House Democrats in the 2010 elections.… Continue reading
“Commissioner Weintraub and her Critics”
Bauer:
Are Weintraub’s comments directly and squarely within the jurisdiction of the Commission, such that she can take some action in response to the President’s failure to produce the requested evidence? No, but then again she rightly says that as… Continue reading
“FEC’s Direction in Doubt After Ravel’s Departure”
Bloomberg BNA:
“I admit when I came here [to the FEC], I was naive,” Ravel said in the phone interview Feb. 21.
In her first year at the FEC, Ravel said, she “crossed party lines” and voted with the three… Continue reading
“FEC member: I have the right to demand Trump prove voter fraud claims”
CNN:
A member of the Federal Election Commission was defiant Tuesday after a nonprofit group said her request that President Donald Trump provide proof of voter fraud merited an investigation into whether her comments were inappropriate.
Ellen Weintraub’s remarks were… Continue reading
Outgoing FEC Commissioner Ravel Predicts More Departures from the FEC, Potentially Costing a Quorum
Dave Levinthal for CPI:
Conceivably, Trump could nominate anyone he wants to the FEC, including Libertarians or independents that share his political sensibilities. Federal law only mandates that the FEC feature no more than three commissioners from any one political… Continue reading