Category Archives: federal election commission
“Center for Public Integrity sues Federal Election Commission”
CPI:
On Feb. 6, Center for Public Integrity senior political reporter Dave Levinthal filed a FOIA request seeking any email exchanges between a White House and FEC official.
On May 8, the FEC informed Levinthal that it had located responsive… Continue reading
Brad Smith Calls on FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub to Step Down after “Jump[ing] the Shark”
The remarks are here, and they are as unconvincing as they are mean-spirited.
The attacks on Democratic Federal Election Commissioner Weintraub and (former) Commissioner Ravel have been relentless. Ravel couldn’t take it anymore, and now the heat gets turned… Continue reading
Looking Good: New FEC Website Relaunches
Looks to be a great improvement. Kudos!
“It’s not over: The FEC is on the job with messy 2016 reporting by Trump campaign and JFCs”
Open Secrets:
Take the campaign’s September monthly report, covering Aug. 1-31, 2016. It has gone through four iterations. The first version, filed by the Sept. 20 deadline, was 25,625 pages long. But when it was amended for the first time… Continue reading
FEC Commissioner Weintraub Suggests Trump “Voter Fraud” Conclusions “Preordained”
“Brad Smith: Prevent the reckless restructuring of the FEC”
Brad Smith in the Columbus Dispatch:
But today the FEC is under attack from members of Congress whose misguided proposal to “reform” the agency could take us back to the Watergate era. A bill co-sponsored by Rep. Jim Renacci, an… Continue reading
Free Speech for People, Prof John Coates File Complaint Against CITGO Contributions to Trump Inaugural Committee
Watchdog group Free Speech For People, joined by Harvard Law Professor John Coates, just filed an FEC complaint against Citgo and the Trump inaugural committee alleging that federal law prohibits “foreign nationals” from donating to presidential inaugural committees.
Read the … Continue reading
On Party Line Vote, FEC Rejects Continued Exemption from Disclosure for Socialist Workers Party
The Supreme Court has long recognized that a group facing a realistic threat of harassment for revealing its donors or vendors has a First Amendment right to exemption from generally applicable campaign finance laws. The case establishing this principle, Bro… Continue reading
“CLC, D21 Lawsuit Calling for FEC Enforcement Moves Forward”
Release:
A federal district court today refused to throw out a lawsuit Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 filed against the Federal Election Commission (FEC). CLC and D21 filed the suit in the United States District Court for the District… Continue reading
“Court Allows Challenge to FEC Rule Shielding Nonprofit Donors”
Bloomberg BNA:
A Federal Election Commission rule on “independent expenditures,” which has allowed millions of dollars’ worth of campaign ads to air without disclosure of the donors funding them, can be challenged in court, a federal judge ruled.
The… Continue reading
“Federal elections commissioner wants Trump to back up his allegations of voter fraud”
LAT:
A member of the Federal Election Commission has accused President Trump of threatening democracy with his unproven allegations of voter fraud and asked him to show evidence if he has any.
Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic commissioner at the agency,… Continue reading
“FEC earning congressional attention — for the wrong reasons”
“‘Deep FEC’ Goes After White House Counsel Don McGahn”
Interesting Brad Smith at NRO:
If career staffers at the FEC are now attempting to sabotage the work of the commissioners — who are, by law, entrusted with running the agency — that’s frightening. The establishment of a Twitter group… Continue reading