Internet access is out at Loyola so blogging will be delayed today.

“Today, the House Administration Committee took another important step toward putting in place critical protections to control the flood of special interest money into American elections. The DISCLOSE Act, now moving to debate on the floor of the House of… Continue reading

Roll Call offers this report. One question is whether shareholder protection gets in the bill.

Meredith McGehee has written this Roll Call oped.

The Salt Lake Tribune offers this report.

There’s been a lot of attention paid to Ky. U.S. Senate candidate’s Rand Paul’s views against the parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barring private discrimination (such as in restaurants) on the basis of race. I am not… Continue reading

BNA offers this report. More from CCP.

In handwritten notes on a speech—it is not even clear whether she delivered the words in her speech. See here. UPDATE: you can see the handwritten text here.

See this PPIC polling (more here). As I’ve shown, the last time one of these measures lost, the political parties spent virtually nothing to defeat it at the ballot box, but pursued a litigation strategy and won (much… Continue reading

We may know tomorrow.

See here and here.

The San Diego Union Tribune offers this report. [Disclosure: I am co-counsel for the City in this case.]

Lillian BeVier, who has written some very important articles on campaign finance law and the First Amendment, is retiring. A very nice profile of her appears here (via Brian Leiter). I wish Professor BeVier much success and happiness in… Continue reading

Rep. Capuano has written this oped for the Boston Herald.