Soon after Democrats and reform groups put all their DISCLOSE eggs in the Scott Brown basket, Brown came out firmly and strongly against it. Senator Schumer vows to push ahead, and reform groups are now targeting Senators Snowe… Continue reading

The Sixth Circuit in Carey v. Wolnitzek has struck down Kentucky’s ban on judicial candidates publicly announcing their party affiliations and its ban on the personal solicitation of campaign contributions. It has remanded for clarification on the reach of the… Continue reading

See here.

The Chicago Sun-Times offers this report. Richard Winger provides some context.

Following up on this post, here is more coverage and commentary: AP Hartford Courant NY Times (editorial) Brennan Center (definitely with a “glass half full” headline) Campaign Legal Center Center for Competitive Politics BNA ($)

You can read the memorial notice from UC Berkeley here. Phil was a giant in the field of legislation, and his work on statutory interpretation (including his co-authored casebook with Bill Eskridge and Beth Garrett) redefined the field. He… Continue reading

In a major campaign finance decision with important national implications, a Second Circuit panel in Green Party of Connecticut v. Garfield agreed with a federal district court that the “trigger provision” of Connecticut’s campaign finance law (giving additional funding when… Continue reading

Wow.

Allison Hayward asks: “do low contribution limits run afoul of the Voting Rights Act?”

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy). Here is the abstract: This Essay argues that the future of the majority-minority district is in peril, as a conservative majority on the… Continue reading

Leslie Lenkowsky sends along the following thoughts about this post: This is not all that surprising for several reasons. Although its methodology has been questioned, the Capital Research Center (and others) have demonstrated for many years that corporate philanthropy… Continue reading

Nina Totenberg offers this end of the term wrap-up for NPR.

Alex Statky and Rob Richie have written this Politico oped.

This is fascinating. I’ll be interested to hear what others think of these data and this methodology.