See here. A snippet: “What Scalia denounced — in a colorful dissent– in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce in 1990, Alito has now led a majority to condemn in dispassionate terms in Davis v. Federal Election Commission. In… Continue reading

The Salt Lake Tribune offers this report, which begins: “Utah native Matt Petersen had a busy week: His wife, Wendy, gave birth to their third child, his son broke his arm, and, oh yeah, he was confirmed by the… Continue reading

The Wall Street Journal offers this editorial on Davis v. FEC.

AP offers this report from Colorado.

Linda Greenhouse, in likely one of her last articles for the NY Times, analyzes the Supreme Court term just ending, including the voter id case. See also this summary, which lists election law cases of the Court’s term. The… Continue reading

Rick Pildes (follow up to his earlier post) Jim Bopp (currently top item on page) David Keating (Club for Growth) (and here and here) Kos Keith Olbermann George Will

Most of the MSM attention yesterday was lavished on yesterday’s Heller decision involving the Second Amendment. Only Adam Winkler saw an election law connection,

National Journal’s Congress Daily offers this report.

Today’s Supreme Court opinion in FEC v. Davis nominally deals with a relatively tangential portion of the McCain-Feingold law; but the 5-4 decision has much broader implications, laying the groundwork for striking down limits on spending by corporations and unions.… Continue reading

SCOTUSBlog is reporting that the Millionaire’s Amendment has just been struck down by the Supreme Court: “Justice Alito wrote the opinion. Justice Stevens dissented in part, joined by Justices Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer.” More when the opinion is released. Stand… Continue reading

Backtracking by the McCain campaign on a commitment not to push the voter fraud line this election? Note also this page on voter fraud at the RNC website. Trevor Potter, who comments in the first linked story, is also mentioned… Continue reading

The Brennan Center has issued this press release.

We have seen many news stories and editorials about how terrible it has been not to have a functioning Federal Election Commission as we entered into a presidential election year. Yet in all the coverage of the FEC, I have… Continue reading

AP offers this report, which begins: “Eight political watchdog groups on Wednesday asked Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more about the fundraising for their presidential campaigns, including new details about those fundraisers who “bundle” tens of… Continue reading