Following yesterday’s report in the LA Times, the NY Times and Washington Post cover the demise of the presidential public financing system. UPDATE: Brad Smith and Bob Bauer weigh in.

Tony Mauro has this report at the First Amendment Center on the WRTL case.

The NY Sun offers this report.

This is distressing, but not surprising. The Hill reports: “Congressional Democrats, including those with executive-branch aspirations, may offer significant resistance to a Democratic bill that would affect how presidential campaigns operate in 2008. Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) introduced legislation… Continue reading

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune offers this report.

You can find the opinion in Samour, Inc. v. Board of Election Commissioners here. Thanks to Mathias Delort for the pointer.

Aaron Burstein and Joseph Lorenzo Hall have written this commentary ($) for Roll Call.

The LA Times offers this report.

Bob Bauer disagrees with my views on what’s at stake in the WRTL case, which the Supreme Court agreed to hear this term. I hope to respond to Bob later this week.

NY Times; Washington Post; LA Times; AP.

As expected, the Supreme Court is going to hear the WRTL case this term. The order reads: “Further consideration of the question of jurisdiction is postponed to the hearing of the cases on the merits. The cases are consolidated and… Continue reading

Stay tuned. This has the potential to be a major campaign finance case.

AP offers this report on the controversial voting rights trial going on in Mississippi.

The Washington Post offers this front-page report. See also this NYT report.