A.P. offers this report.

A.P. offers this report on the BCRA sponsors’ lawsuit against the FEC’s interpretation of some BCRA provisions.

Ed Still has posted this stay application filed with Justice Scalia in the Texas redistricting case. The AP story is here.

BNA’s Money and Politics Report has an interview with new FEC Chair Brad Smith. (Paid subscription required, but the Foley and Tobin article on 527s is now available on this page without a subscription.)

See this law.com report. Thanks to Steven Sholk for the pointer.

The Christian Science Monitor offers this editorial.

The Center for Voting and Democracy offers Louisiana’s Nonpartisan Primary: Model or Travesty of Reform?. Thanks to Roy Ulrich for the pointer.

Robert Sitkoff’s article in Regulation is also available on SSRN here. Here is the abstract: This essay explores the policy bases for, and the political economy of, the law’s long-standing regulation of corporate political speech. The essay has three… Continue reading

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer has this report. Thanks to Roy Schotland for the pointer.

See this oped by Peter Kirsanow.

See here. Yesterday’s Los Angeles Times also featured this article on a court striking down a county ban on intra-candidate campaign finance transfers.

See this BBC report (UPDATE: Link corrected). Don’t miss the last paragraph, on a very funny Club for Growth advertisement against Howard Dean. [I think I fit into each category besides driving a Volvo or having a body pierce.] (How… Continue reading

The Boston Globe offers this report, on the FEC’s decision yesterday regarding solicitation rules for section 527s. (The actual advisory opinion should appear here eventually). The ruling itself, at least as characterized in the Globe story is not all… Continue reading

Loyola’s computer system suffered a power outage last night, meaning that any e-mails sent to me (or, for election law list members, sent to the Election Law list) did not go through. The system appears to be back up now.