“Mitch McConnell Will Ask Supreme Court To Scrap Campaign Contribution Limits Entirely”
HuffPo reports.
My Slate piece explains how the inside baseball “level of scrutiny” question is the most important one in this case.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
“Supreme Court weighs limits on campaign donations”
USA Today reports on McCutcheon.
2013 American Values Public Lecture: “North Carolina’s New Front in The Voting Wars”
I’m happy to announce that I will be giving this lecture on October 24 at 7 PM at North Carolina State University.
“New multi-state group pushes campaign disclosure”
“Nationwide Group of Campaign Enforcement Agencies to Launch ‘Sun Center’ Disclosure Website”
Federalist Society “Teleforum” on Tom DeLay Case
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“Government Shutdown May Mean No Disclosure Of Campaign Finance Before Special Elections”
This item appears at Think Progress.
“Time for corporations to disclose political donations”
Lisa Gilbert:
Say you owned a business, and found out one of your employees was taking money out of the cash register and spending it on questionable ventures without telling you. You’d fire him, right? It’s a pretty clear-cut… Continue reading
“Dems Sue Gov., Cuccinelli; Claim Voter-Roll Purge”
NBC Washington: “In the wake of a lawsuit filed by Democrats over the purging of names from Virginia voter registries, a Loudoun County registrar has been ordered to purge names from her county’s list by the end of the… Continue reading
“Disclosure and Corruption”
Michael Gilbert has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Disclosure laws require individuals and organizations that spend money on political speech to make public their identities. The Supreme Court and many others laud disclosure for shining light… Continue reading
“Lobbyists Face Uncertainty Amid Shutdown”
Jim Bopp Again Tries to Get Supreme Court Interested in Overturning Ban on Direct Corporate Contributions to Candidates
This time in a case out of Iowa.
The Court passed on the issue in Danielczyk, though I would not be surprised for a grant and hold for McCutcheon at this time.
“Ballot initiatives bill could spur litigation against backers”
LA Daily Journal:
A bill before Gov. Jerry Brown requiring ballot measure backers to
use volunteers to gather signatures would also create a right for anyone to sue by
alleging fraud was used to get the signatures, potentially allowing… Continue reading
GW Event Monday on McCutcheon
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The Political Law Society, the student body arm of the Political Law Studies Initiative at the George Washington University School of Law, would like to invite you to attend a panel discussion on the upcoming Supreme Court case … Continue reading