“New Report Highlights Need for ‘Coordination’ Reform Post-Citizens United | Commentary”
Paul Ryan has written this Roll Call commentary.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
“Scalia’s Word Games”
Jeff Shesol at The New Yorker.
Highlights from The New Soft Money
Dan Tokaji & Renata Strause
Thanks to Rick and Heather for their posts on The New Soft Money, the report on outside spending that we released this morning. We believe this report to be the first of its kind,… Continue reading
“The New Soft Money” – Read It!
Let me briefly add my praise to Heather’s post on Dan Tokaji and Renata Strause’s report issued today, “The New Soft Money: Outside Spending in Congressional Elections.” I had a chance to read this in draft a few weeks ago.… Continue reading
“Does Supreme Court Want Truthier Elections?”
Noah Feldman:
Seen from this perspective, laws regulating speech at election time are like laws regulating money at election time: obsolete relics of the Progressive-era aspiration to rid politics of distortion and dirty tricks. Count on the Supreme Court… Continue reading
“Koch Group Forms ‘Super PAC’ as 2014 Races Near”
NYT:
Until now, groups supported by the Kochs and their fellow donors have relied heavily on “issue ads” that do not specifically ask listeners to vote for or against a candidate. Strategists working with the Kochs concluded that the… Continue reading
“Even if accidental, the loss of Lois Lerner’s e-mails is evidence of problems at the IRS”
“Cronies, corruption and cash: Lawrence Lessig on why we need a super PAC to end all super PACs”
House Oversight Committee Issues Staff Report on IRS Mess
“Democrats Griping About False Ads Respond With Deception”
“IRS chief promises stricter rules for ‘dark money’ nonprofit groups; Expect new round of proposed regulations during early 2015”
CPI report:
The Internal Revenue Service will propose new and specific rules defining how much money “social welfare” nonprofits may spend on political campaigns, Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday during an interview for an upcoming Center for Public Integrity investigative… Continue reading
The Political Thriller Published by the Moritz College of Law
Serious empirical research rarely reads like a political thriller, but “The New Soft Money: Outside Spending in Congressional Elections” — written by Dan Tokaji and Renata Strause* and published by Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law — is one of… Continue reading
“Give up trying to stop political lies”
Cincinnati Enquirer editorial:
Ohio’s election law banning lying in political campaigns – while perhaps well-meaning – is constitutionally questionable and should be repealed by the General Assembly as soon as possible.
We’d love to see candidates stop telling lies.… Continue reading
“Conservatives, after dismantling public financing system, set sights on N.C. judiciary”
E&E:
The commercial starts like all the political attack ads voters in the swing state of North Carolina are used to seeing: black-and-white graphics, ominous voice-over, newspaper clippings.
In less than 10 seconds, though, the spot takes a striking… Continue reading