Monthly Archives: November 2013
“‘Accentuating the Positive’ in Campaign Finance Reform”
“Mutual Funds Increasingly Support Corporate Disclosure of Donations”
“Stockman’s filings don’t explain his income”
Must-read Houston Chronicle story quoting the great Kathleen Clark on congressional ethics obligations.
Worth clicking for the graphic alone.
I expect this story to have legs.
“How liberal mega-donor Peter Lewis left his mark on politics”
“Obama visit to DreamWorks Animation spotlights studio run by top Hollywood donor”
WaPo:
The decision by the White House to put the presidential spotlight on his company underscores how well many top campaign donors have fared in Obama’s administration, despite the president’s early pledge to temper the influence of wealthy interests on… Continue reading
Verifying ID–With a Health Care Twist
NYT.
Interesting Intervention Motion in North Carolina Challenge to New Voting Law
The lawyers at Perkins Coie have filed this complaint in intervention and motion on behalf of young North Carolina voters, raising the kinds of issues wrote about in my recent NYT oped.
“Citizens United in Affordable Care Act litigation, Part VI”
“Statutory Interpretation from the Inside – An Empirical Study of Congressional Drafting, Delegation and the Canons: Part II”
Abbe Gluck and Lisa Schultz Bressman have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review). This moves to the top of my statutory interpretation reading pile. Here is the abstract:
This is the second of two Articles relaying… Continue reading
“How much lobbying is there in Washington? It’s DOUBLE what you think”
“Kelly Horwitz files appeal in Tuscaloosa voter fraud case”
WRBC: “Tuscaloosa City School board candidate Kelly Horwitz has filed an appeal with the Alabama Supreme Court in the Tuscaloosa voter fraud case.”