“Banning Insider Trading in Congress Gains Support”
WSJ: “Legislation to ban insider trading in Congress is gaining new momentum after CBS aired a “60 Minutes” piece on the trading activity of several lawmakers.”
Category Archives: legislation and legislatures
“Why Did Freddie Mac Pay Newt Gingrich $300,000?”
NPR asks.
UPDATE: Whoa. Freddie paid Newt at least $1.6 million.
David Gergen on Lessig on Money in Politics
Here.
I Have More in Common with Jack Abramoff than I Thought
Abramoff in the NYT: “In his book, he lays out proposals for banning political contributions from anyone doing business with the government and for closing the revolving door between Congress and lobbying firms.”
While I do not believe in a… Continue reading
Lessig on Money and Politics
The Boston Review interview. I now have a copy of Republic, Lost which I look forward to reading.
Watch the Jack Abramoff Interview on “60 Minutes”
Here.
“Implicit Bias in Legal Interpretation”
Ward Farnsworth Dustin Guzior and Anup Malani have posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
What role do policy preferences play when a judge or any other reader decides what a statute or other legal text means? Most… Continue reading
“K Street Suffers from Twitter Jitters”
Interesting Politico report.
“Senate Has Become Chamber of Failure”
WaPo: “In the Senate, it takes 60 votes to do anything big. And neither party has them. So the huge tactical question is not whether big ideas will lose. It is who will own the failure politically.”
“Zombie Lobbyists Occupy Washington”
In These Times reports on the revolving door.
Sen. Reid: I Did Not Go Nuclear
See here (via Jonathan Adler).
Gerhardt and Chafetz Debate: “Is the Filibuster Constitutional?”
Download this PENNumbra debate here.
“Chipping Away at Gridlock”
The NY Times editorializes on Sen. Reid’s use of the nuclear option.
“Carolyn Lerner, Hatch Act enforcer, seeks reforms”
Politico reports.