Research on Filling Vacancies on Presidential Ballot
Last July, my great research assistant, Zach Krowitz, helped put together this memo on the filling of vacancies on the presidential ballot.
Category Archives: campaigns
“GOP repudiation of Trump before 11/8? If so, then what?”
Ned Foley:
As I write this on Friday night October 7, there is renewed talk of GOP leadership disavowing Trump. True, Trump will still be on the ballot that we citizens cast. But suppose the GOP leadership publicly announces that… Continue reading
Clinton in Private Speech Complains About Citizens United and the Supreme Court’s Money in Politics Cases
Wikileaks released some private speeches of Clinton’s that she’d been refusing to release. And this, not really different from her public position, was in the tidbits:
U.S. Gov’t Officially Accuses Russia of Hacking to Influence U.S. Election, But Notes How Difficult to Mess with Vote Counting Systems
Statement from DHS and ODNI:
The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on… Continue reading
“Gary Johnson Is No Bernie Sanders: He Wants More Corporate Money in Politics, Not Less”
Adam Smith:
For the Bernie voters still deciding who to vote for in November, an outside candidate like Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson may seem appealing. But crucially, Johnson doesn’t agree on this key tenet of Bernie political revolution. In… Continue reading
“Reclusive mega-donor fueling Donald Trump’s White House hopes”
CPI:
In March, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was vehement: Super PACs are a “disaster” and “very corrupt.”
With his opponent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, gazing expressionlessly at him from the next podium during a Republican primary… Continue reading
“With Senate Control at Stake, Koch Groups Start Endorsing by Name”
NYT:
The vast and cash-rich Koch political network is intensifying efforts behind preferred Republican candidates in the few crucial races that could decide Senate control.
For the first time, some political groups under the umbrella of the billionaire conservative donors… Continue reading
“FEC Must Investigate Unprecedented Violations of Campaign Finance Laws by Clinton, Trump”
Release:
The Campaign Legal Center today filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission alleging that three super PACs – one supporting Hillary Clinton (Correct the Record) and two supporting Donald Trump (Rebuilding America Now and Make America … Continue reading
VA AG Says Ballot Selfies OK in VA
“Trump transition team and GOP lobbyists are inching toward mutual acceptance”
“Assigning a Tax Lesson: The Relationship between the Trump Foundation and Trump’s Tax Returns”
Ellen Aprill and Lloyd Mayer have written this oped for TaxProf. It begins:
As the debate between the Vice Presidential candidates Wednesday night made clear, Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns remains an important campaign issue. The extraordinary… Continue reading
“Tight governors’ races loosen political purse strings”
“The White House Rule: No Tax Returns, No Job”
Eisen and Painter NYT oped:
As ethics counsel to the current president and his predecessor, we scrutinized their tax returns before they were released every year. We also worked with our colleagues to review many tax returns of presidential nominees… Continue reading
“The 2016 Election and the Coming Reform Debate”
Bauer blogs, and reformers won’t like it.