Category Archives: campaigns

“How Google Could Give 2016 Hopefuls an Edge”

May 1, 2015, 11:36 amcampaignsRick Hasen

WSJ Wash Wire: The Walker campaign was so aggressive in 2014 that Google highlighted its efforts in a just-released case study about the midterm campaigns. Among the findings: Mr. Walker’s re-election team raised more money from ads pegged to… Continue reading

“From Supreme Court, a mixed blessing on campaign finance limits”

April 30, 2015, 12:37 pmcampaign finance, campaigns, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this LA Times oped. It begins: The Supreme Court offered a pleasant surprise this week to those of us worried about the role of money in elections. In a 5-4 opinion written by Chief Justice John… Continue reading

“Potential roadblock for Bernie Sanders rises in New Hampshire”

April 30, 2015, 12:06 pmballot access, campaigns, political parties, primariesRick Hasen

CNN reports. MORE from Weigel.

“The Political One Percent of the One Percent: Megadonors fuel rising cost of elections in 2014”

April 30, 2015, 9:04 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Sunlight: In the 2014 elections, 31,976 donors — equal to roughly one percent of one percent of the total population of the United States — accounted for an astounding $1.18 billion in disclosed political contributions at the federal level. Those… Continue reading

“First Amendment Rights at Stake in Wis. Political Speech Case”

April 30, 2015, 8:57 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

David Keating oped for Real Clear Politics.

“Hillary Clinton to Jump Start Fund-Raising Efforts”

April 29, 2015, 9:16 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

NYT: Hillary Rodham Clinton had once planned to wait until May to hold her first fund-raising events. But in the last two weeks, she has moved up her schedule, primarily out of concern about Jeb Bush’s extensive super PAC… Continue reading

Breaking News and Analysis: #SCOTUS Upholds Ban on Judicial Candidates Personally Soliciting Campaign Contributions

April 29, 2015, 7:12 amcampaigns, judicial elections, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

In a surprise and very important development, the Supreme Court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to Florida’s ban on the personal solicitation of campaign contributions by judicial candidates. Even more surprising, the Court’s opinion (a plurality in part)… Continue reading

6th Circuit Strikes Down Ky 300-Foot No Electioneering Buffer Zone as 1st Amendment Violation

April 28, 2015, 9:25 amcampaignsRick Hasen

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Clinton’s Campaign Finance Push as a Way to Inoculate Herself from Charges Related to Her Lack of Transparency?

April 25, 2015, 8:24 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

John Dickerson: This campaign finance pillar of the Clinton campaign appears to be weakened already, but some campaign finance advocates were skeptical that Clinton was ever going to have a big fight over campaign finance reform as she pledged,… Continue reading

“Hillary Clinton’s cheapskate campaign”

April 25, 2015, 7:55 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Vogel.

“Right-wing candidate’s nude campaign poster skirts election law”

April 24, 2015, 5:31 pmcampaignsRick Hasen

Japan Times: Campaigning for Sunday’s second wave of quadrennial unified local elections has highlighted a legal loophole that allows candidates to go to extremes — including nudity — to gain votes. In contrast with the ubiquitous portrait shots preferred… Continue reading

We May See a New Flood of Foreign Money in Ballot Measure Elections

April 24, 2015, 7:16 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

Bloomberg BNA: The Federal Election Commission has dismissed—on a deadlocked party-line vote—charges that Manwin International, a foreign company producing online pornography, violated the law by bankrolling a campaign committee opposed to a Los Angeles ballot measure requiring the use… Continue reading