Category Archives: campaigns
“Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts”
NYT:
Facebook said on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign that was potentially built to disrupt the midterm elections, with the company detecting and removing 32 pages and fake accounts that had engaged in activity around divisive… Continue reading
“Liberal secret-money network hammers House GOP”
Politico:
A network of secret-money nonprofit groups has spent millions of dollars attacking swing-seat House Republicans on health care and taxes, quietly becoming one of the biggest players in the 2018 political landscape.
The groups have local members and names… Continue reading
Oklahoma Law Review Symposium: “Falsehoods, Fake News, and the First Amendment”
This definitely looks worth diving into soon:
Volume 71, Number 1 (2018)
Symposium: Falsehoods, Fake News,
and the First Amendment
PDF
Editor’s Introduction
Mitchell B. Bryant
Panel 1: Falsehoods and the First Amendment
PDF
False Speech and the First Amendment… Continue reading
“Is Lying About an Election Free Speech or Fraud?”
Matt Ford for The New Republic.
If Donald Trump Knew About the Meeting With Russians at Trump Tower, Would That Be a Campaign Finance Violation? It’s Complicated
Yesterday CNN reported:
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, claims that then-candidate Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton,… Continue reading
“Democrats Propose Making It Illegal To Spread False Election Information”; Some Thoughts on Constitutionality
HuffPost:
Several congressional Democrats plan to introduce legislation Thursday that would make it a federal crime to knowingly and intentionally publish false information about elections.
The legislation would criminalize knowingly spreading wrong information related to the time and place of… Continue reading
Is the Trump Tape Evidence of a Campaign Finance Violation?
“‘It looks kind of skeevy’: Illinois governor shamed by cash giveaway”
Politico:
Gov. Bruce Rauner, who’s campaigning as an anti-corruption crusader, today found himself fending off attacks on his own ethics after attending an event where a political ally handed out $300,000 in cash.
The cash giveaway happened after the Republican… Continue reading
“The super rich boost political giving ahead of November’s tough midterm election”
USA Today:
Donors who have given $1 million or more in this cycle contributed $120.1 million to super PACs in the April-to-June fundraising quarter. That’s more than twice the $58.8 million they donated during the previous three-month period.
Republicans accounted… Continue reading
“Tabloid Company, Aiding Trump Campaign, May Have Crossed Line Into Politics”
NYT:
Federal authorities examining the work President Trump’s former lawyer did to squelch embarrassing stories before the 2016 election have come to believe that an important ally in that effort, the tabloid company American Media Inc., at times acted more… Continue reading
“Ethics complaints target eight write-in candidates as bogus, including two in Tampa”
Tampa Bay Times:
If only members of one party are running in an election, so the primary will decide the race, the primary is open to all voters. But if any other candidate files, including a write-in, the primary is… Continue reading
“Michael Cohen Taped Conversation With Trump About Buying Rights to Playmate’s Story”
WSJ:
MIchael Cohen taped a conversation in person with Donald Trump in which the two men discussed buying the rights to a former Playboy Playmate’s story that she had an affair with Mr. Trump more than a decade ago, according… Continue reading
“Indicted Russian Company Uses Trump’s Supreme Court Pick as Get Out of Jail Free Card”
Every Voice:
A Russian company indicted earlier this year as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into foreign interference in our elections is using a decision written by none other than Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to… Continue reading