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Zephyr Teachout’s Gifts, Offices, and Corruption responds to Seth Barrett Tillman’s Citizen’s United and the Scope of Professor Teachout’s Anti-Corruption Principle.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
“Super PAC Mania”
Bob Barnes writes for the Columbia Law School magazine.
“The Final Frontier: A Montana case gives campaign reformers their best shot at undermining the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. But they shouldn’t get their hopes up. “
Alex Roarty has written this article for National Journal.
“Mystery of Citizens United Sequel Is Format, Not Ending”
Adm Liptak’s latest.
“California’s election reform flops”
Joe Mathews wants California to be more like Wisconsin in its politics. Really.
And anyone who thought top two and citizen redistricting would fundamentally transform California had expectations which were way too high.
“Campaign Finance: The Nonprofit World’s New Weapon”
Eliza Newlin Carney reports for Roll Call, part of a special series, The State of K Street.
“Outside Spending: The Big Picture (So Far)”
Bob Biersack crunches the data in a must-read post at Open Secrets. It includes the following chart on outside money:
This shows a continuation of that the trends I discussed in my Slate piece, “The Numbers Don’t Lie: If you … Continue reading
“Political Consultants, Media Buyers Gorge On Secret Honey Pot”
HuffPo reports.
“Mr. Romney’s secret bundlers”
“Obama-Allied Super-Pac Joins Union in Spanish Romney Ads”
Bloomberg reports.
“Florida’s Voter Harassment Campaign”
Bloomberg View offers this editorial.
” A Critic at Large: Benched; The Supreme Court and the struggle for judicial independence”
Jill LePore has written this New Yorker piece, with the subhead “Obamacare, Citizens United, and Judicial Independence.”
“The Scales of Intimidation; Does the Supreme Court feel threatened, intimidated, or harassed by the press?”
Dahlia Lithwick has written this jurisprudence essay for Slate. It expands on an aspect of my Speech, No Consequences oped in Politico last week.
“In a world of super PACs, Mitt Romney rules; Allies moved fastest to exploit new system”
The Boston Globe offers this must-read report.