The Washington Post offers this report, which begins: “President Bush’s campaign spent roughly twice as much as it raised last month, using up nearly $50 million as the Republican rolled out his first wave of campaign ads to counter… Continue reading

The Houston Chronicle offers this report. Link via How Appealing at its new address: http://legalaffairs.org/howappealing/.

See this report from the April 16 Boston Globe.

The New York Times offers this report.

It is here.

Serves me right to blog before ingesting caffiene. In addition to the problem noted in the last post, here are two more corrections. 1. The Nader article linked to yesterday at this post now works. 2. The Notre Dame conference… Continue reading

I noted here the testy exchange between FEC chair Brad Smith and the Center for Responsive Politic’s Larry Noble. Bob Bauer weighs in here on the substance of the exchange between the parties.

The Supreme Court refused to hear the case involving the re-redistricting in Texas. See this A.P. report. Here is the order list. This was a summary affirmance, without any opinion or dissents, which is authority that the lower court… Continue reading

N.J.com offers this report on one of the effects of HAVA.

The Boston Globe offers this editorial, which ends: “But the FEC should move quickly to close the 527 loophole.”

The Los Angeles Times has published my latest oped, which begins: Two years ago, when the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill was signed into law, it was hailed as a historic victory that would give government back to the… Continue reading

The Los Angeles Times offers this report.

The Los Angeles Times offers this report. UPDATE: This is a corrected link to the article.

The New York Times offers this editorial.