The court’s order is here. The Bee story is here. No word yet on whether CALPIRG will participate as amicus. See also this Dan Weintraub column, “Fight to regulate campaign cash is endless, futile.”

A Sacramento Bee story is here. Peter Overby for NPR is here. Roll Call (paid subscription required) is here. Bob Bauer is here. Links to the Senate testimony are here.

A three judge court in Texas heard arguments in the Texas re-redistricting case on January 21. From this report of the oral argument, I expected a rather quick decision rejecting the plaintiffs’ claims. I wonder if there is any… Continue reading

See here.

Following up on this post, it appears that the race for the second spot on L.A.’s mayoral runoff ballot won’t be close enough to go to a recount. With about 24,000 (mainly absentee?) votes remaining to be counted, there… Continue reading

The New York Times offers this editorial.

Following up on this post, I now know the identity of the report I was thinking about. It is Who’s Buying Campaign Finance ‘Reform’? by Cleta Mitchell for the American Conservative Union.

Dan Walters offers this Sacramento Bee column.

Dan Weintraub offers this Sacramento Bee column.

The New York Times offers this report, which begins: “A potentially important witness in the criminal case against Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former fund-raising director will plead guilty today in an unrelated stock fraud case, according to a lawyer involved… Continue reading

The New York Times offers this must-read front page report.

Today the Senate Rules Committee is holding a hearing on proposed 527 legislation. You can find Bob Bauer’s testimony here and Michael Malbin’s testimony here. I’ll add more links when I have them.

I just returned from casting my vote for mayor. We have a two-round election, with a runoff scheduled for May. The top two candidates go on to the runoff, but last week’s Los Angeles Times poll showed a statistical dead… Continue reading

I’ll be on KCRW’s “Which Way, L.A.” talking about Gov. Schwarzengger’s fundraising, tonight at 7 pm. You can listen live or to an archived broadcast here.