Monthly Archives: February 2015
“Kansas Secretary Of State Says His Voter Suppression Crusade Is Meant To ‘Protect Immigrants’”
*That’s* How You Bind Probate Judges to Conduct Same Sex Marriages
In a post yesterday, I took issue with a small part of an excellent Emily Bazelon story on whether Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore went to far in saying probate judges were not bound by a federal district court… Continue reading
“Campaign Manager Pleads Guilty to Coordinated Campaign Contributions and False Statements”
DOJ press release:
A campaign finance manager and political consultant pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Virginia for coordinating $325,000 in federal election campaign contributions by a political action committee (PAC) to a Congressional campaign committee. This… Continue reading
What Did Yesterday’s FEC Hearing Have in Common with Festivus?
“Local Initiatives Designed to Improve the Voting Experience; Concepts for Local Elected Officials and Election Officials”
Toolkit from the Fair Elections Legal Network.
“Bob Bauer’s Advice on Campaign Finance Reform: Aim Low, or Prepare to Get Sued”
NLJ:
But Bauer, who was White House counsel to President Barack Obama before joining Perkins Coie in 2011, said suggestions such as “tightening up the earmarking rules, regulating single PAC, single-candidate super PACs or other super PACs … this isn’t… Continue reading
“Rand Paul asks Kentucky GOP leaders for a presidential caucus in 2016”
Lexington Herald-Leader: “Requesting help to avoid a ‘costly and time-consuming legal challenge,’ U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is asking members of the Republican Party of Kentucky’s central committee to create a presidential caucus in 2016.”
“U.S. District Judge to Deliver Keynote at Voting Rights Act Symposium at UA”
Press release:
U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Alabama Law Review symposium as it marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at noon Feb. 27 at The University of Alabama… Continue reading
“Lawmakers divided on system to remap districts”
News from Va.
“The Constitution: Wrongage”
Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial manages to diss both the President and me on campaign finance and foreign spending.
“Liberal group files complaint alleging Walker’s tax-exempt group runs afoul of federal law”
AP: “A liberal group has filed a complaint alleging that a new tax-exempt group created by Gov. Scott Walker is acting in violation of federal election law because it is actually a presidential exploratory committee.”
“Charles Stewart’s First 2014 Survey Data Shows Continued Drift Away From ‘Election Day'”
Chapin:
Professor Charles Stewart of MIT has released the first data from his 2014 edition of the Survey of the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) – and it shows that the country’s growing embrace of alternatives to the polling… Continue reading
“The FEC Hearing and Its Detractors”
Bauer:
It seem unfair that just holding a hearing subjects the FEC to criticism and ridicule. The agency was acted entirely reasonably in inviting views on what it might do, if anything, in response to the McCutcheon case. So… Continue reading