Here. This is the ultimate inside baseball moment for those in campaign finance reform. The battle is so vicious, but who else outside of our area of the world would care?
Indeed, as predicted, the pretext is a dispute over executive privilege. I figured something was up when Miers was late (again) with her answers to the questionnaire. Now we’ll see if my next set of predictions is right: President… Continue reading
Roll Call offers this editorial (paid subscription required), which begins: “The federal courts have now decisively struck down — three times — the Federal Election Commission’s rewrite of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It’s now time for the FEC… Continue reading
Roll Call offers this report (paid subscription required), which begins: “In an enforcement action considered perplexing by some campaign finance watchdogs, the Federal Election Commission declined to seek civil penalties in a recent case despite finding reason to believe that… Continue reading
EAC Commissioner Ray Martinez III has written this Roll Call commentary (paid subscription required). A snippet:
Since 2000, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, a well-respected government agency staffed by scientists, technicians and engineers, has operated the National Software… Continue reading
Roll Call offers this report. Two snippets:
“Section 5 is obviously the key element that has to be reviewed and extended,” said Conyers, who added he believes it will be critical not to overload the legislation with “extraneous material… Continue reading
A.P. reports that Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran, is running for Senate in Ohio. He will run in the Democratic primary against Sherrod Brown. Brown, as blog readers may remember was a Kerry elector until it was pointed out… Continue reading
The signs are pointing to a withdrawal of Harriet Miers’ nomination, probably soon. The biggest sign was the President’s non-answer at a press conference today to a question about a withdrawal. I had the same reaction as Ann Althouse:… Continue reading