The Washington Post offers this report. See also this Time magazine article on CU, Brad Smith criticizing Senator Schumer on DISCLOSE, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on CU and the Kagan confirmation, and this interesting post on transparency and campaign finance… Continue reading

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Dale A. Oesterle has written this commentary for Election Law@Moritz.

Fascinating read at Politico, especially when juxtaposed with Justice Thomas’s views about anonymity in political activity.

David Orr, the Cook County (IL.) Clerk, blogs at Huffington Post.

Hotline On Call reports.

A Roll Call report ($) entitled “Democrats Upbeat on Campaign Finance Bill,” says: “Schumer, former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chairman and author of the Senate version of the bill, and Reid told House Democratic brass in a bicameral leadership huddle… Continue reading

This must-read column by Abby Thernstrom makes two important points: (1) the Black Panther case seems much ado about nothing; (2) the important action in the DOJ voting rights section will come when it must approve redistricting requests under section… Continue reading

“If Citizens United is considered by the Federal Election Commission to be a press entity exempt from all campaign finance laws, it’s difficult to imagine a political advocacy organization that wouldn’t be exempt in the eyes of the current FEC.”… Continue reading

This article begins: “Sharron Angle’s campaign sent a cease and desist letter to Sen. Harry Reid’s campaign last week after a copy of her pre-primary election website was relaunched as www.therealsharronangle.com, which was later taken down.” More from Political Wire… Continue reading

The Seattle Times offers this report.

See this LA Times report.

This LA Times article talks about the CU/SOTU controversy.

Tragic news about Joe Doyle, who was vice president of the William & Mary Election Law Society. I had the pleasure of spending time with some of the wonderful students from this group a few years ago. My condolences… Continue reading