The Johnson-Feingold debate tackles CU and disclosure.

A key passage: “But interviews found that the group was started with seed money from at least one influential Iowa businessman: Bruce Rastetter, a co-founder and the chief executive of one of the nation’s larger ethanol companies, Hawkeye Energy… Continue reading

The WSJ offers this fascinating report.

von Spakovsky blogs.

AP offers this report.

You can find the federal district court’s 26-page order here. See also this story.

“The Fix” reports.

Here. To be clear, my proposal for random auditing would apply only to groups that engage in making independent expenditures and/or electioneering communications on a large scale, and subject to an as-applied exemption for groups that could be subject… Continue reading

Interesting story from Arizona.

The WSJ offers this editorial.

I’ve just written this Jurisprudence commentary for Slate. It begins: It’s nothing new to accuse your political opponents of allowing foreign money to be used in a U.S. election, as President Obama did this week with the U.S. Chamber of… Continue reading

I have posted it at Scribd. My earlier coverage is here. Justice Kennedy may rule on this at any time, or refer it to the Court for a ruling.

Mazzone: “Citizens United might be a bad decision for any number of reasons but it can’t be because Justice Thomas’s wife is an organizer.”

E.J. Dionne on the Chamber, the allegations, and CU.