“The Money Crisis: How Citizens United Undermines Our Elections and the Supreme Court”
Russ Feingold has written this piece for the Stanford Law Review Online.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
“Alaska Native Group Suing Division of Elections”
New section 5 suit in Alaska.
“Top Two in California Primaries, June 2012: By the Numbers: High Rates of Invalid Ballots; Perverse Outcomes; Major Parties Dominate”
FairVote has issued this press release.
“Ex-prosecutor George Holding defends John Edwards case”
Must-read Gerstein.
“Ex-lawmaker lobbyists more likely to put leftover campaign money to political use”
WaPo reports.
“No New Trial for John Edwards”
NYT reports.
“Beltway Bundlers Have Mitt Romney Sitting Pretty”
Roll Call reports.
“The Anti-ALEC alliance: Group at heart of anti-conservative crusade is shadowy organization funded by leftwing millionaires and billionaires”
The right wants disclosure of funding for issue advocacy. Interesting. (h/t Eric Brown)
“The Missing Right To Vote; What we’d get from amending the Constitution to guarantee it.”
Heather Gerken has written this Slate contribution to its “How to Fix the Constitution” Hive.
“Campaign Aid Is Now Surging Into 8 Figures”
NYT: “Even in a political season marked by unprecedented levels of political spending, Sheldon Adelson stands alone.”
“Corporate Cash in State Elections Gets U.S. High Court Scrutiny”
Bloomberg reports.
“Fla. Gov. Rick Scott Defends Noncitizen Voter Purges”
NPR reports.
“Justice Department Is Dropping Case Against Edwards”
Carrie Johnson reports for NPR.
“Angus King pledges to discourage super PAC money if his opponents do the same”
News from Maine.