Monthly Archives: October 2011
“Big Democratic Donors Stiff Super PACs”
Politico reports.
“John Edwards Case Shadowed by Politics”
Politico reports.
Politico Interviews Brad Smith
in its Money & Politics video series.
“Mike Lee wants to be first politician with his own super PAC”
The Salt Lake Tribunereports (via Political Wire).
As I explained yesterday in Slate, this is a trojan horse for the return of soft money.
“Emanuel Cleaver, Artur Davis Spar Over Voter ID Laws”
Roll Call reports.
“Edwards Fights Campaign Finance Case”
NYT reports.
“Are Your State’s Ballots Difficult to Understand?”
A Pew election data dispatch.
“Super-Soft Money: How Justice Kennedy paved the way for ‘SuperPACS’ and the return of soft money’
I have written this Jurisprudence essay for Slate. It begins:
Soft money is coming back to national politics, and in a big way. And we can blame it all on a single sentence in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion in 2010’s… Continue reading
“State voter ID measure expected to see some changes in Senate”
News from Pa.
Give the People What They Want
“Ex-McCain lawyer: Barack Obama ‘mugged’ John McCain in 2008”
A Politico interview with Trevor Potter.
“Since the 1990s, black Democrats and Republicans have been in an “unholy alliance” when it comes to redistricting.”
An alliance unraveling?
“Ed Lee Ballot Scandal Spawns Difficult Legal Questions”
SF Weekly: “The only law definitively broken by the pro-Ed Lee volunteers caught on film filling out and collecting ballots in Chinatown was the law of common decency. The introduction of a stencil-like device that allows people to expediently… Continue reading