Category Archives: campaigns
Full Court Press to Get #SCOTUS to Take Up WI #JohnDoe Case (As It Should)
Lincoln Caplan in the New Yorker.
Billy Corriher at Think Progress.
Mark Joseph Stern Wrong on Ballot Selfies
Here’s the part in Slate that’s most objectionable to me:
Second, the (still relatively rare) instances of voter fraud to which Hasen alludes likely would not have been foiled by a ballot selfie ban. Vote-buying almost always occurs through mail-in… Continue reading
“From Russia With Trump: A Political Conflict Zone”
ABC News investigative report:
Donald Trump and his children have for years promoted themselves and their real estate opportunities in Russia and other former Soviet states, and ethics experts say if he is elected President the get-tough U.S. sanctions against… Continue reading
“Campaign mega-donors spill on why they open their wallets”
Dave Levinthal on the excellent panel he ran at the Texas Tribune Festival:
A small group of campaign super-donors agreed that the campaign finance system in the U.S. needs reform, but said in the meantime, they are following the rules… Continue reading
“Justice Kennedy Laments ‘Hostile, Fractious’ U.S. Politics”
NLJ:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy decried the current state of political discourse on Friday, telling an audience at the International Bar Association conference in Washington that the country’s divisions had reverberations around the globe.
“The verdict on freedom… Continue reading
“Elite ‘bundlers’ raise more than $113 million for Hillary Clinton”
Michael Beckel reports for CPI.
“Reforming the Contested Convention: Rethinking the Presidential Nomination Process”
Michael Morley has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Fordham Law Review). Here is the abstract:
The presidential nomination process used by the Democrat and Republican Parties is an ill-considered, unstable pastiche of competing components that generally operate in fundamentally… Continue reading
“Russian hackers trying to influence U.S. elections, conclude top Intel Democrats”
Politico reports.
The top Democrats on the House and Senate Intelligence panels said Thursday that they are convinced, based on briefings, that senior Russian officials are trying to sway or disrupt the U.S. elections.
“Based on briefings we have received,… Continue reading
“How John McCain and Russ Feingold are riding the big money wave in their campaigns”
WaPo:
John McCain and Russ Feingold used to be synonymous with their crusading overhaul of the campaign finance system that eliminated big money from federal elections.
But after a sea change to campaign finance laws following the Supreme Court “Citizens… Continue reading
“USA TODAY analysis: Super PAC donations surge past $1 billion”
And nearly half the money came from 62 individuals, companies and unions.
“Hillary Clinton Struggles to Replicate Obama’s Small-Donor Juggernaut”
NYT:
In an illustration of the lack of enthusiasm for her among some liberal activists, just 24 percent of the contributors to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign so far have given $200 or less. In 2012, 43 percent of the money… Continue reading
“Donald Trump, Pam Bondi and $25K: Was it pay to play?”
Politifact Florida:
With some of the facts of the case unknown, Clinton’s ad makes claims that cannot be proven. For that reason, we decided to not put this statement on our Truth-O-Meter. Still, with all the news stories re-circulating about… Continue reading
“When the Electoral Map Governs Presidential Campaign Strategy”
John Harwood for the NYT:
Donald J. Trump’s progress in national polls has done something in the 2016 presidential race that is unusual. It has made the Electoral College matter.
Usually it doesn’t. Because voter preferences are distributed relatively… Continue reading