“The FEC’s Open Hostilities, Dysfunction, and Intimidation Foreshadowed the Trump Era”
Eliza Newlin Carney for TAP.
Category Archives: federal election commission
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
“Dysfunction and Deadlock at the Federal Election Commission”
“Commissioner Ravel’s Departure–and the Virtues of Deadlock”
Bauer:
Rick Hasen suggests that Mr. Trump could now break the agency deadlock and add a libertarian voice to the agency, creating a majority for active deregulation without violating the rule against one party holding more than half the seats. … Continue reading
Rather Than Continued Stalemate, Federal Election Commission May Now Lead Way to Campaign Finance Deregulation
As we have long been expecting, Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel has announced her resignation from the Federal Election Commission, effective March 1. For the last decade or more, beginning with the FEC tenure of Don McGahn (now the White… Continue reading
“U.S. District Court Orders Federal Election Commission to Re-Consider Whether Commission on Presidential Debates is Breaking Campaign Finance Law”
BAN:
On February 1, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan issued a 28-page opinion in Level the Playing Field v Federal Election Commission, 1:15cv-1397, D.C. She ruled that the FEC clearly did not look at the evidence presented by… Continue reading
“With morale in tatters, Federal Election Commission eyes changes”
CPI:
Federal Election Commission leaders — dogged by abysmal staff morale and a top manager improperly obtaining employees’ confidential critiques — are considering changes to how the agency operates in a bid to restore staff trust.
Chief among them: the… Continue reading