“Unburdened by Reality at the FEC: ‘Soft Money’ Loophole Created for Redistricting Efforts”
Paul Ryan blogs.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
“Wang: ‘Swing Door’ Is Good for the Political System”
Eric Wang has written this Roll Call oped.
“SG Kagan and the Citizens United Case: What We Know (and What We Don’t)”
I have written this guest post for the ACS Blog. It responds to this Balkinization post by Marvin Ammori.
More on CU and Kagan Coming
Everyone has been sending me a link to this Balkinization piece by Marvin Ammori. I can’t post now but will have a response to this and other developments up later today or tomorrow.
SG Kagan and Election Law
With the news confirmed that President Obama will be nominating SG Kagan to the Supreme Court, I thought I’d reflect on what we know about Judge Kagan’s views about election law. Here’s what we know:
Virtually nothing, especially compared to… Continue reading
Lopez Torres: The Sequel
See here.
“Shadowy outside group spending $1.5 million to influence Arkansas Dem primary”
Greg Sargent on Exhibit 1 for the disclosure portions of the DISCLOSE Act (I wonder if the act would get bipartisan support if it just included the disclosure provisions).
Echoes of Bush v. Gore in the UK
“Court Rejects Christie’s Limits on Campaign Donations From Labor”
The NY Times offers this report, which begins: “A New Jersey appeals court on Friday struck down Gov. Christopher J. Christie’s order sharply limiting campaign contributions by labor unions, saying that the change the governor wants can be made… Continue reading
Albert Hunt on DISCLOSE
See here.
FEC Issues AO Allowing Members of Congress to Raise Big Bucks for Redistricting Efforts
More CU
“MoveOn Takes on the Supreme Court”
CNN reports on a CU-inspired ad. Apparently the NYT rejected the ad.
“Obama to Seek Line-Item Veto Power to Trim Spending From Bills”
The NY Times offers this report.