Category Archives: campaigns
“DeSantis Super PAC’s Urgent Plea to Donors: ‘We Need 50 Million Bucks'”
NYT:
Hours before the Republican Party’s first presidential debate, the chief strategist for the super PAC that has effectively taken over Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign met with donors in Milwaukee.
“Now let me tell you a secret — don’t leak… Continue reading
“Spiraling Legal Bills Threaten Trump With a Cash Crunch”
NYT:
Donald J. Trump’s legal problems aren’t just piling up — his legal bills are, too.
New financial reports show that the former president’s various political committees and the super PAC backing him have used roughly 30 cents of every… Continue reading
“Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024”
WaPo:
Democrats are worried about a potential drop next year in turnout among Black voters, the party’s most loyal constituency, who played a consequential role in delivering the White House to President Biden in 2020 and will be crucial in… Continue reading
Trump’s 2024 Campaign/Trial Calendar
WaPo has this story with a nifty graphic on how next year is shaping up for the former and aspiring president — and all of us — with four criminal or civil cases already scheduled and more in the works.… Continue reading
“As Legal Fees Mount, Trump Steers Donations Into PAC That Has Covered Them”
NYT:
Facing multiple intensifying investigations, former President Donald J. Trump has quietly begun diverting more of the money he is raising away from his 2024 presidential campaign and into a political action committee that he has used to pay his… Continue reading
“The super PAC frenzy redefining campaign operations”
Politico:
Super PACs have been growing in strength for more than a decade, but this cycle are swimming in more money than ever. They have started earlier, with more than $14 million in independent expenditures in the primary already, according… Continue reading
“A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails”
NYT:
What began a few months ago as a slow drip of fund-raising emails and promotional images composed by A.I. for political campaigns has turned into a steady stream of campaign materials created by the technology, rewriting the political playbook… Continue reading
Hessick, Morse, and Pinnell on Electing Prosecutors
Carissa Byrne Hessick, Michael Morse, and Nathan Pinnell, Donating to the District Attorney (forthcoming, UC Davis Law Review):
The United States is the only country that elects its local prosecutors. In theory, these local elections could facilitate local control of… Continue reading
“Massachusetts US attorney accused of election meddling and lying”
Reuters:
Rachael Rollins, the top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, improperly used her U.S. Justice Department position to meddle in a local district attorney election by leaking to newspapers dirt about a political rival – one of many ethics violations… Continue reading
“FBI Faulted for Its Probe of Russian Meddling in 2016 Campaign”
Wall Street Journal:
A special counsel appointed in President Donald Trump’s administration issued a highly critical report on how the FBI handled allegations linking Mr. Trump to Russia in 2016, ending four years of work Monday after having lost… Continue reading
“AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters”
“Ad makers seek to nip ‘deep fake’ campaign ads in the bud”
From Politico:
The trade association representing Washington political consultants wants to curb the use of “deep fakes” in political advertising before it gets the chance to take off, as political campaigns become the latest space scrambling to respond to… Continue reading
Trial court enjoins Kansas prohibition on distributing personalized pre-filled absentee ballot applications
This is an intriguing decision, analogizing the challenge to cases protecting advocacy groups’ right to circulate petitions without undue regulation.