“Mitch McConnell’s latest idea to redo the Alabama special election is likely unconstitutional”
Jen Kirby for Vox.
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Big Package of Money in Politics Stories from Center for Public Integrity
Must read: “Russian Twitter Trolls Stoked Voter Fraud Fear Before Election”
NBC News:
Russian trolls used Twitter to challenge the validity of the U.S. presidential election months before it took place, according to new NBC News analysis.
In apparent expectation of a Trump loss, the trolls began sowing seeds of doubt… Continue reading
“Trump, Twitter, and the Russians: The Growing Obsolescence of Federal Campaign Finance Law”
Tony Gaughan has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
Since the 1970s, federal campaign finance law has been built on four pillars. The first is contribution limits on donations to candidate… Continue reading
Wikileaks Urged Trump Not to Concede If He Lost
From blockbuster Atlantic report on emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Wikileaks, comes the following nugget:
WikiLeaks didn’t write again until Election Day, November 8, 2016. “Hi Don if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if… Continue reading
“Trump raised more dollars from small donations”
“Cuomo, a Master of the $50,000 Fund-Raiser, Bypasses Small Donors”
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Minnesota’s Ban on All Political Apparel in the Polling Place
The case is Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, Here’s the question presented from the cert. petition:
Minnesota election law forbids voters from wearing political badges, political buttons, or other political insignia at the polling place. See Minn. Stat. §… Continue reading
“Here’s What Could Happen With Roy Moore And The Alabama Senate Ballot”
Paul Blumenthal for HuffPost:
Allegations that Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, sexually assaulted a 14-year-old and sought or maintained relationships with other teenage girls when he was in his early 30s has prompted calls from his fellow… Continue reading
“Russia Twitter trolls rushed to deflect Trump bad news”
AP:
Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year’s presidential electionwhile straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of… Continue reading
“Virginia voter suppression tweets went undetected by Twitter for hours”
CNN:
A Twitter account misleading Democratic voters in Virginia by telling them they could cast their ballot by text message was active for almost three hours on Tuesday morning before Twitter suspended the account.
The account, “MAGA Mike King,” was… Continue reading
“Trump Jr. Hinted at Review of Anti-Russia Law, Moscow Lawyer Says”
Bloomberg:
A Russian lawyer who met with President Donald Trump’s oldest son last year says he indicated that a law targeting Russia could be re-examined if his father won the election and asked her for written evidence that… Continue reading
“Russia tried to corrupt the 2016 election. Could it do the same Tuesday?”
WaPo:
There’s no evidence that Russians were able to change any votes after they were cast, but at the very least, they succeeded in raising questions about the U.S. voting process — questions that James Norton, a homeland security expert… Continue reading
“At least nine people in Trump’s orbit had contact with Russians during campaign and transition”
WaPo:
While Trump has sought to dismiss these Russia ties as insignificant, or characterized the people involved in them as peripheral figures, it has now become clear that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III views at least some of them… Continue reading