This graphic from the Washington Post is colorful, though a bit hard to follow (at least looking at the version on line).

Michael Richardson has this piece at OpEd News. See also this related piece.

Law.com offers this report.

Here is WRTL’s response, agreeing with the FEC for expedited briefing. The last time a party that won a campaign finance case below agreed to support the Court hearing the case was in Randall v. Sorrell. That didn’t work out … Continue reading

On the new Political Insider website, a sister site to the indspensable Political Wire site, there’s a post referring to this ad for a group called “Obama4America.” The Political Insider post says: “We’re told the Barack Obama advertisement on… Continue reading

The D.C. Circuit has issued this opinion in CREW v. FEC. The court held CREW did not have standing to appeal the FEC’s dismissal of an administrative complaint.

The Denver Post offers this report, which begins: “Federal officials Thursday asked the president of a Denver company that tests voting machines to avoid activities that create the appearance of conflicts of interest.” Here is the EAC’s statement, “EAC… Continue reading

I had hoped to attend this very important conference being held Jan. 16 and 17 in Columbus, Ohio, and sponsored by Kent State (corrected location), but I won’t be able to. This looks like a great lineup of speakers.

Via How Appealing comes news of this order from the Sixth Circuit vacating the district court’s decision with instructions to dismiss the case as moot. You can access my earlier posts on this case via this post, “First Major… Continue reading

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Things appear to be working again. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The FEC’s jurisdictional statement is here; the intervenors’ jurisdictional statement is here. Lyle Denniston’s roundup is here.

See here.