“Panel votes to divert money for campaigns”
More news from Arizona.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Supreme Court to Hear Doe v. Reed on Last Day of Term, April 28
See here.
Michael Malbin on CU, Political Parties, and Small Donors
See this Roll Call oped.
WaPo Editorial on Schumer-van Hollen
Here.
“Panel OKs end to ‘merit selection’ for judges”
And Justice O’Connor is not happy.
“Should Online Political Ads Disclose Who’s Paying?”
Florida ponders.
“Rethinking elections: Amid budget shortfalls, can we afford all these special elections?”
Dean Logan, the LA County Registrar-Recorder has written this LA Times oped.
“Judges Slow to Toughen Up Recusal Rules”
The National Law Journal offers this important report on post-Caperton, post-Citizens United, judicial recusal issues.
CRS on CU
CRS has released Campaign Finance Policy After Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: Issues and Options for Congress by R. Sam Garrett.
The short paper also makes reference to CRS Report R41045, The Constitutionality of Regulating Corporate Expenditures: A Brief… Continue reading
“Campaign Finance Disclosure and the Legislative Process”
Scott Noveck has posted the final version of his Harvard Journal of Legislation article on SSRN. You can find the abstract in my earlier blog post here.
Lyle Denniston on Corporate Personhood Post-CU
Here.
“Repair California” Suspends Operations; California Irreparable
Voters may not even get a chance to vote on a proposed California constitutional convention.
More CU
Supreme Court Ruling Changes Landscape for Big Business (Fox Business)
How Corporations Are Secretly Moving Millions to Fund Political Ads (AlterNet)
What Ted Olson Needs to Know About Corporate Democracy After Citizens United (Jesse Strauss, HuffPo)
Codified Canons
Jacob Scott, Codified Canons and the Common Law of Interpretation, Georgetown L.J.