FEC Commissioner Trey Trainor Has a Ted Cruz Campaign Sign on His Front Lawn at His Texas Home
This, as the FEC reviews a complaint against Cruz.
Category Archives: federal election commission
“Republicans Are Making ‘Dark Money’ Even Darker for 2024”
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
Republican FEC Commissioners Block Investigation into Trump Campaign for 59th Time (29th Rejecting Staff Recommendations)
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 FEC, Still Failing to Enforce Campaign Laws, Heads to Capitol Hill”
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
“A Trump Appointee is Trying to Gut the FEC’s Ability to Investigate Campaign Finance Crimes”
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
Republican Federal Election Commission Commissioner Wants to Hobble the FEC Even More Than It Already Is
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
Federal Election Commissioner Trey Trainor Refused to Cooperate with Inspector General Investigating Allegations of Improper Conduct Where Trainor Appeared at Event Misidentified as Member of “Trump Elections Team”
Just wow.
And because of the lack of cooperation the IG could not really tell if Trainor broke any rules.
The Federal Role in U.S. Elections, in One Picture
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
Federal Lawsuit against DeSantis and Florida Election Officials over Rollout of Felon Voting Rights Restoration
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
FEC Unanimously Voted (Back in July 2022, But Just Now Made Public) that Schwarzenegger and His USC Institute Did Not Violate Federal Campaign Finance Law in Giving Election Administration Grants During Covid
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
DC Circuit affirms dismissal of challenge to FEC’s decision to accept paperwork for Trump’s presidential candidacy
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
DC Circuit rejects Heritage Action’s effort to intervene in Campaign Legal Center suit against FEC
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
Federal Court Rejects Argument by Pro-DeSantis Super PAC That It Can Give Its Contact List to DeSantis for Free without Violating Contribution Limits
This decision seems a sound and straightforward result. But of course the FEC could not agree.
“Google Didn’t Show Bias in Filtering Campaign-Ad Pitches, FEC Says”
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