Bruce Cain emails: Your remarks do not bode well for the Commission’s prospects. Apparently if you are not a registered Republican, you are by definition a Democrat even if you have been a decline to state your whole voting career.… Continue reading

The Hill offers this report.

TPMMuckraker offers this report, which quotes (but does not link to) my recent Slate column on the FEC. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports Republicans on FEC want firms to be able to raise money for candidates. As I… Continue reading

Tony Quinn emails: I had not intended to response to Bruce Cain’s post but after the latest from the Secretary of State, I feel it necessary to respond. I appreciate the washing of hands on what increasingly appears to be… Continue reading

BNA offers this report.

Rick Pildes has written this post at Balkinization.

In a further follow up on this post, Nicole Wnger of the California Secretary of State’s office sends along these comments for posting: Since Tony Quinn has misspoken on the topic at least a couple of times now, the… Continue reading

AP offers this report.

Chicago Reader gives a taste.

Monica Youn has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Harvard Law & Policy Review). Here is the abstract: This Article argues that in answering the recurring central question of campaign finance doctrine–the question of whether political spending can be treated… Continue reading

The NY Times offers this report about some very interesting developments involving this engine–and issue I discuss in some detail in my draft (now forthcoming, Stanford Law Review) on lobbying and rent seeking.

The Virginian-Pilot offers this report.

The NY Times “The Caucus” offers this blog post.