“Voting Booth Selfies Could Land You in Trouble”
CBS News reports. I talked to CBS’s Ben Tracy.
Category Archives: campaigns
“Justin Timberlake’s voting selfie may have broken the law”
“Email shows Clinton campaign walking a fine line on fundraising”
Michael Isikoff for Yahoo.
Despite the headline, there does not appear to be anything close to the legal line here. In other words, the Clinton campaign was exploiting all the permissible avenues for raising money in a horrible legal system… Continue reading
“Total cost of 2016 election could reach $6.6 billion, CRP predicts”
Open Secrets:
Is 2016 the Year of the Billionaire when it comes to financing the election?…
Candidates and news outlets have decried the outsized influence of a small number of donors throughout the election season. Here’s a startling statistic: The… Continue reading
“Trump Loyalists Planned Voter Intimidation Using Fake ID Badges, Fake Exit Polling — Until HuffPost Asked Them About It”
The bizarre Roger Stone “exit poll” story gets weirder, via HuffPo.
“Consultant With Ties to Donald Trump Linked to Offer to Hide Source of Donations”
NYT:
A video posted on Monday by a British newspaper appeared to show a Republican consultant with ties to Donald J. Trump offering to disguise the source of contributions to a “super PAC” intended to aid Mr. Trump’s… Continue reading
“Complaints allege House Democrats’ Trump ads break campaign finance law”
Politico:
A conservative-leaning watchdog group is accusing the DCCC and a dozen of its candidates of using illegal advertising practices this fall, arguing in new complaints that the committee has used its ad strategy to direct extra money to a… Continue reading
“Experts: Actions of Democratic operatives in latest undercover James O’Keefe video are likely not a violation of the law”
Business Insider:
Conservative activist James O’Keefe released another undercover sting video on Monday that he claimed proved Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton illegally coordinated with an outside organization.
But what O’Keefe considered illegal activity is most likely not, election law… Continue reading
“Campaigns Brace for Election-Day Legal Battles”
“Clinton Campaign Mulled Embracing Sanders’s Agenda Against Corruption”
Common Dreams:
Neera Tanden, the president of the think tank, Center for American Progress, produced a memo on government reform and public corruption that was sent to John Podesta, campaign chairman, and Jake Sullivan, a senior policy adviser to the… Continue reading
“Developing Empirical Evidence for Campaign Finance Cases”
Brennan Center:
This report reviews the current state of campaign finance law, explains how the Supreme Court has considered evidence in campaign finance cases, and identifies the key empirical questions in campaign finance law that have been or need to… Continue reading
Federal Court Bars Enforcement of Michigan Ballot Selfie Law, Citing First Amendment Concerns
See the order granting a preliminary injunction.
“Trump: ‘Too much is being made’ about what I said in the debate”
Politico has the audio of Trump talking about his comment on keeping us in suspense if he loses:
“Yes, I think too much is being made,” Trump told Bo Thompson on WBT-AM’s “Charlotte’s Morning News.” “But, you know, everybody had… Continue reading