The Hill reports.

The Washington Post offers this report.

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite blogs.

Following up on this post, via Doug Berman comes a link to this (preliminary version of?) the Persily-Ansolabehere study of public attitudes toward Supreme Court constitutional decisions. The CU-related questions are on page 101.

SCOTUSBlog reports. More from AP. I expected this after the Ninth Circuit’s recent en banc ruling on this question eliminated the circuit split.

The NYT explores 501(c)(4) status. (More here (“A Profusion of Magic Words”)). I give some of the basics in my recent Slate column on secret donors.

This item appears at The Hill‘s blog.

Roll Call reports on a sensible Administration pivot from the issue of foreign donors to the issue of secret donors more generally. Al Hunt’s prediction, now picked up in modified form as a NYT letter from Washington, is… Continue reading

TV is always a winner.

Rick has graciously invited me to write a campaign-finance guest post as well, focused on disclosure. And I also offer my thanks for the opportunity. Rick has posted a number of campaign finance items recently with a similar theme: significant… Continue reading

News from Alaska that does not involve how to spell a candidate’s name.

A must-read WaPo report.… Continue reading

[I have asked election law prof David Schleicher to write a series of guests posts related to election law issues in the 2010 elections. There should be one each week before the election. Here’s the first.–RH] First, I’d like to… Continue reading

I have written extensively about the role of micro-donors (donors giving under $200 in the aggregate to a campaign) and micro-donations (donations under $200) to presidential candidates, especially to the Obama 2008 campaign. Now comes this CBS News report (based… Continue reading