I’ve just written this Findlaw column. It begins:
The voluntary public financing system for U.S. presidential candidates, established in the post-Watergate era, is in its last throes. As it collapses, presidential candidates have been calculating—and recalculating–the advantages of opting… Continue reading
Eliza Newlin Carney’s latest Rules of the Game Column is available for non-subscribers at this new link on National Journal’s snazzy new website. Eliza’s take on the public financing controversies of Sens. Obama and McCain is “Both McCain and Obama… Continue reading
Lyle Denniston has this post at SCOTUSblog, which begins: “The National Association of Manufacturers on Monday afternoon asked Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., to temporarily bar enforcement of a new federal lobbying law designed to force public disclosure of… Continue reading
You can find the Table of Contents for Election Law Journal 7:2 here. I have reprinted it below. Look for ELJ 7:3 in July, featuring, Rep. David Price on superdelegates, a forum on the National Popular Vote plan with… Continue reading
Could it be that the Supreme Court issues its opinion in Crawford, the Indiana voter id case, tomorrow? Last week it released two tax opinions on April 15 and it released its lethal injection death penalty case on the day… Continue reading
Roll Call offers this report, which begins: “A political action committee run out of a prominent downtown Washington, D.C., Republican direct-mail firm has during the past three cycles spent more than 95 percent of $1-million-plus it raised on expenses… Continue reading