NYT: Hillary Rodham Clinton recently spent four days straight scurrying across the Western United States, mingling for hours at a time with hundreds of Democratic donors from the Rockies to Portland, Ore., from Southern California to the southern tip… Continue reading

Missoula Independent: James Bopp, the Indiana attorney who won the landmark Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case, interrogated Montana’s top political cop for nearly seven hours last week, comparing Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl to a racist… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy blogs.

AP reports.

AP: Opportunity News Media wants you to know it’s OK to be a Republican, and it is spending $3 million to say so in the presidential battleground states of Ohio and Colorado. Where that money comes from is anybody’s… Continue reading

Eric Posner on Lessig at Slate: So there is a mismatch between Lessig’s means—a dramatic run for office as an unprecedented “referendum president” who resigns as soon as his mandate is legislated—and his goal, which is at best incremental reform.… Continue reading

USA Today: At least 141 former members of Congress retain campaign accounts containing a total of more than $46 million, a USA TODAY analysis found. Twenty are linked to campaign committees with more than $500,000 each. Nearly one-third of the… Continue reading

Paul Blumenthal reports for HuffPo.

Roll Call reports.

Brad Smith for the Daily Caller: CLC wants the FEC to undertake a “fact-based” investigation to determine the moment that Jeb Bush and others became “actual” candidates, or began “testing the waters.” If that approach were the law, there would… Continue reading

Paul Jossey writes for The Federalist.

Dave Helling: A McCaskill spokeswoman said any allegation of impropriety is dumb. “A candidate is always free to give another candidate advice,” she wrote. I don’t think it’s that simple.