“Yes, Corporations Do Have Free Speech Rights”
Stephen Carter for Bloomberg View.
For my own views on this, see Corporations May Be Progressive, But That Still Doesn’t Make Them People, Reuters Opinion, April 6, 2016.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency”
Gizmodo:
Inside Facebook, the political discussion has been more explicit. Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask Zuckerberg whether the company should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017.”
Every week, Facebook employees vote… Continue reading
“Is Trump Right About ‘Rigged’ Election?”
I have written this oped for CNN (my preferred headline was: Donald Trump’s Whining a Teachable Moment). It begins:
Each year on April Fools’ Day I intersperse some false but plausible news stories among the real ones on my Election … Continue reading
“Verbatim fact check: Is hard money a larger share of political spending than outside money?”
“Democratic voters refuse to believe the worst about Hillary Clinton”
Smart Greg Sargent piece:
But my strong suspicion is that Clinton’s reliance on corporate money and her Wall Street speeches are not actually deal-breakers, in and of themselves, for many Democratic voters. Judging by the fact that Clinton has won… Continue reading
“Lawsuit filed in Senate District 10 race”
Great Falls Tribune:
Republican state Senate candidate J.C. Kantorowicz filed a lawsuit against Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl and Attorney General Tim Fox on Thursday claiming that his First Amendment rights to criticize his opponent are muzzled by a… Continue reading
“Clinton: Sanders’ ‘Phony’ Attack On Campaign Finance Is Attack On Obama”
“The new Gilded Age: Close to half of all super PAC money comes from 50 donors”
Must-read WaPo:
A small core of super-rich individuals are responsible for the record sums cascading into the coffers of super PACs for the 2016 elections, a dynamic that harks back to the financing of presidential campaigns in the Gilded… Continue reading
“Bulk of Ryan’s fundraising haul in $50k-plus chunks”
Politico:
Paul Ryan’s massive $17 million fundraising haul this quarter was fueled by some of the nation’s richest people and large corporate political action committees, which cut five- and six-figure checks to the speaker’s burgeoning political operation, according to an… Continue reading
“Residency and Democracy”
Gene Mazo has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, FSU L Rev). Here is the abstract:
Geographical residency is part of democracy. Politicians are elected from geographical districts, and they represent the people of those districts in office. A United… Continue reading
“Outside groups deal themselves in for GOP delegate game”
“Money influences everybody. That includes Hillary Clinton”
Trevor Timm Guardian column.
“Karl Rove-backed PAC warms to Trump”
Politico:
Karl Rove has publicly blasted Donald Trump as “a petty man consumed by resentment and bitterness” with little gravitas and almost no chance of beating Hillary Clinton.
But privately, the super PAC conceived by Rove is suggesting to… Continue reading
Law Prof Write-in Candidate Appeals NJ Natural Born Citizenship Case against Cruz
…and points to some interesting aspects of the appointment of the ALJ who decided the natural born citizenship issue in Ted Cruz’s favor.
The case goes to the Appellate Division.