“Super PACs unleash politics of the weird”
Chad Flanders has written this Politico oped.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
“Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments”
Richard Re and Christopher Re have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal). Here is the abstract:
The Reconstruction Amendments are justly celebrated for transforming millions of recent slaves into voting citizens. Yet this legacy of egalitarian enfranchisement… Continue reading
Obama ♥ K Street
Dana Milbank: “Three years into his presidency, Barack Obama has finally overcome his pesky, puritanical aversion to K Street. As a candidate, Obama pledged that lobbyists ‘will not run my White House.’ But on Monday, the president brought in… Continue reading
“Jewish Sabbath Concern Over Vote”
News from Scotland.
NYT Breaks Major Story About IRS Coming Down on 501c4s Acting as Shadow Super PACs
Big deal: “The Internal Revenue Service is caught in an election-year struggle between Democratic lawmakers pressing for a crackdown on nonprofit political groups and conservative organizations accusing the tax agency of conducting a politically charged witch hunt. In recent… Continue reading
“Super PAC Spending to Eclipse $100 Million; Money From 501(c)’s More Difficult to Track”
Choose your poison: big money or big(ger?) dark money?
Super PAC Spending Milestone
iWatch News: “Heading into Super Tuesday, spending by super PACs aligned with presidential candidates has surpassed spending by all super PACs in the 2010 mid-term election.”
“For House leaders, no clear rules for policing their own”
Ben Pershing on lack of House ethics enforcement.
Should We Feel Bad for the 86-Year-Old Veteran Who Could Not Vote with His Veterans Card in Ohio?
Think Progress is making a big deal of this Cleveland Plain Dealer story about an 86 year old voter who could not vote with his Veterans id card because it contains no address. Think Progress says that the voter “can’t… Continue reading
Breaking News: Judge Temporarily Enjoins Wisconsin Voter ID Law on State Law Grounds
The state court judge’s opinion, exclusively on state law grounds, is here. See also these news stories. This is separate from the recently-announced federal lawsuit against Wisconsin’s voter identification law.
The question of whether the law violates the… Continue reading
Watch Abrams, Hasen, and Katz Talk Citizens United and Super PACs at University of Michigan Law School
Watch the video here.
“State pursues voter fraud charges against Woodlands residents who registered to motel”
Texas Watchdog: “The case of eight Woodlands residents who sought to use a residency loophole in the state’s election law to gain representation in a utility district election in 2010 will go before a grand jury on Thursday in… Continue reading
“Anti-Corruption Provisions Should be Restored to STOCK Act in Conference, Legal Center, Reformers Tell Majority Leader Reid”
See this press release.
More on Whether Angus King Would Caucus with Democrats
Following up on this post,The Fix offers this analysis.