“10 States Add Campaign Finance Laws”
This report first appeared in USA Today.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
SpeechNow Files Cert Petition on Disclosure Issue It Lost Before the En Banc DC Circuit
Check out the cert petition; Lyle Denniston’s analysis for SCOTUSBlog; the SG’s letter to Congress explaining why the government did not argue for the constitutionality of the limits on contributions to independent expenditure committees in the Supreme Court… Continue reading
“Schumer files new version of campaign-finance bill to court centrist votes”
The Hill offers this report.
I’ll be travelling tomorrow, so regular blogging will resume Monday.
“Salazar backs ‘lifetime ban’ for revolving-door lobbyists”
The Washington Post offers this report.
“Rangel to face House trial on ethics violations”
The Washington Post offers this report.
“New groups aim to spend big on election ads”
AP offers this report.
“FEC APPROVES TWO ADVISORY OPINIONS ON INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE-ONLY POLITICAL COMMITTEES”
See this press release and Commissioner Walther’s dissenting statement.
“Welfare Agencies Boost Voters”
USA Today offers this report, which begins: “The recession that impoverished millions of Americans is producing a side effect: new voters.” See also ‘Motor voter’ law likely to be bigger priority for states about new DOJ guidelines. More from… Continue reading
“Why the Center Does Not Hold: The Causes of Hyperpolarized Democracy in America”
Rick Pildes has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, California Law Review). Here is the abstract:
Politics as partisan warfare: that is our world. Over the last generation, American democracy has had one defining attribute: extreme partisan polarization. We have… Continue reading
“New version of DISCLOSE Act introduced in Senate”
CCP blogs about this new version of DISCLOSE.
“Win or Lose No voting system is flawless. But some are less democratic than others.”
The New Yorker offers this review of Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present (Princeton; $26.95), by George Szpiro.
“FEC Drafts Would Back Unlimited Funding For ‘Independent Expenditure’ Committees”
BNA offers this report ($).
“BP’s changing lobbying disclosure amount? It figures.”
The Washington Post offers this report.