Roll Call offers this breaking news report (paid subscription required), which begins: “House Administration Chairman Bob Ney (R-Ohio) responded forcefully to the heads of five Democratic 527 organizations who declined to appear at a November committee hearing convened to look… Continue reading

This is a message for instructors assigning the Lowenstein & Hasen casebook (Election Law–Cases and Materials (2d ed 2001)) in their classes. The 2004 Supplement (January) is now available here. It may be downloaded and distributed free of… Continue reading

See this report in the Cincinnati Enquirer.

See this Washington Post report.

I have posted the appellees’ brief in this important Voting Rights Act case being heard en banc by the First Circuit here. The other brief is too large for me to post. (If someone else posts it, I can… Continue reading

The Century Foundation and Electionline.org have web-published Primary Education: Election Reform and the 2004 Presidential Race. Pages 3 and 4 of the pdf contain an executive summary.

See Amazon putting campaign cash a click away, which begins: “One month after the Supreme Court upheld a ban on massive political contributions from corporate America, online retailer Amazon.com plans to become the first U.S. business to unveil a… Continue reading

The following announcement just arrived via e-mail: THE NEW CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW: PROMOTING OR DESTROYING DEMOCRACY? Thursday, February 5, 2004, 6-8 pm at the Fordham Law School 140 W. 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023 * What is the impact… Continue reading

The Los Angeles Times offers this report.

Dan Borenstein offers this column in the Contra Costa Times on California’s changing primary system.

See this article. It contains an error: It says: “For the appeal to go forward, five of the Supreme Court’s nine justices would have to agree to review the case. If that happened, an injunction would be issued staying… Continue reading

The Los Angeles Times offers Money Flow in Politics Faces Limits, which begins: “State officials are moving to bar lawmakers from taking donations of unlimited size in campaign accounts created before new contribution caps took hold.”

See this New York Times report.

See this front-page coverage in the New York Times.