Washington Wire reports that “More Americans believe it is time for a third party than at any other point in the previous 15 years, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll coming out later today.”

At yesterday’s House Administration committee hearing on DISCLOSE, witness William McGinley apparently said in oral testimony (it does not appear to be in his written testimony) that the DISCLOSE Act would rewrite the rules defining expenditures to include internet… Continue reading

Via this Tweet comes this memo.

See here. Here’s the upshot: Given these memos, though, along with President Obama’s strong words on Citizens United (citing it as a central reason he tapped Kagan), it’s fair to assume that Kagan will approach campaign finance issues from… Continue reading

Roll Call reports ($). Still only two Republican co-sponsors/supporters in Congress, both in the House.

I have posted the district court’s six page order here. You can find my earlier coverage of this case at this link.

Via Ken Vogel comes a link to this internal Clinton White House memo, dated Oct. 31, 1996, and authored by six people, giving talking points supporting the 1996 version of the McCain-Feingold legislation (which did not pass, by the… Continue reading

The Committee on House Administration has not yet posted on its website the interesting testimony at yesterday’s hearing on the DISCLOSE Act. BNA contrasts ($) the Trevor Potter and Michael Toner testimony. You can find the Toner testimony here.… Continue reading

See here.

Following up on this post, the RNC’s counsel sent this letter in response to the DNC’s letter, stating: “last May the DNC had an opportunity to prove its recurrent claim that the RNC engages in minority voter suppression in… Continue reading

In my first post on SG Kagan and election law, I said that “Unless something comes out from Clinton Administration papers or otherwise, the only clues we may get from SG Kagan about her election law views will come from… Continue reading

According to this article, which will appear in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, an administration official explained the strategy of SG Kagan to abandon the Austin antidistortion rationale as follows: “It was a conscious decision not to push a pet… Continue reading

Here.

Politico offers this piece about SG Kagan, campaign finance, and CU.