Roger Sollenberger for The Daily Beast:
For years, dark money groups have enjoyed certain advantages that offer donors anonymity—putting the proverbial “dark” in “dark money.”
But late last month, one small outside group quietly told election law regulators to shove… Continue reading
From Commissioner Weintraub:
Commissioners will continue to exercise prosecutorial discretion – the judicially unreviewable superpower granted to them by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals –unless and until the Court reconsiders its rulings in the Commission on Hope, Growth &… Continue reading
The latest from the Brennan Center:
Ultimately, any system of rules is only as good as the body that enforces them. Most Americans want strong campaign finance rules, which require an FEC committed to enforcing duly enacted laws in a… Continue reading
The Intercept:
The government agency tasked with investigating campaign finance violations is on its way to intentionally making that very obligation more difficult to accomplish.
The Federal Election Commission is a notoriously deadlocked agency that has nonetheless taken some significant… Continue reading
Details.
A Republican FEC commissioner has quietly formulated a rules change that would hamstring the Office of General Council (OGC) and slow investigations to a standstill. Here’s the breakdown:— Campaign for Accountability (@Accountable_Org) August 24, 2023
Bipartisan Policy Center has this explainer, which “identifies the primary entities from each branch of the federal government with a role in elections and their overlap and inter-agency collaboration to equip election stakeholders to better use existing resources and… Continue reading
Tampa Bay Times reports: “Nearly five years after Floridians voted to allow people with felony convictions to restore their voting rights, the coalition that pushed for the change is suing the state, arguing Florida created a system that impedes… Continue reading
Sensible result (vote totals). Not clear why this took so long to make public.
The claim was that these grants were meant to help Biden win, but there was no evidence of that. (Similar claims have been made… Continue reading
Late last year, I highlighted a federal court’s decision to throw out a challenge to the FEC accepting paperwork for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy on the ground that he was ineligible to serve. Last month, in an unpublished… Continue reading
You can see the DC Circuit’s unanimous opinion in Campaign Legal Center v. Federal Election Commission, here. The introduction of the opinion:
Heritage Action for America appeals the denial of its post-judgment motion to intervene as of right, FED.… Continue reading
WSJ:
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint from Republicans that Google’s Gmail app aided Democratic candidates by sending GOP fundraising emails to spam at a far higher rate than Democratic solicitations.
The Republican National Committee and others contended… Continue reading