“How to End Super PACs, Once and for All: This proposal for Super PAC ‘insurance’ could work by deterring third-party spending.”
Read this Nick Warshaw blog post, and if you want more info, check out the law review article.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
“CLC Blog Update: Trevor Potter’s Remarks at The Brookings Institution Campaign Finance Solutions Summit”
“Is ‘dark money’ boosting Bernie Sanders?”
“A Reform Agenda to Counter Big Money in American Politics”
The third Fred Wertheimer post on the sixth anniversary of Citizens United.
“Legislative Vacancies: A Patchwork of Laws for Patching Holes in State Legislatures”
That’s the lead story in the latest issue of NCSL’s The Canvass.
“Congressional Handcuffs Should Not Block SEC From Dark Money Work”
Sen. McCain Backs Sen. McConnell in Opposition to President Obama Executive Order on Contractor Campaign Disclsoure
Roll Call:
In this particular battle, McConnell may find common ground with Sen. John McCain. The Republican from Arizona has sparred with the current majority leader on campaign finance questions, with McConnell leading the charge against the McCain-Feingold campaign finance… Continue reading
“Missouri House Republicans advance voter ID bills over Democratic opposition”
KC Star:
The Missouri House on Wednesday gave initial approval to a pair of bills that would require Missourians to present a photo ID to vote in public elections.
Both bills are expected to pass the House and be… Continue reading
“Black Voters in Fayette County, Georgia Win Historic Opportunity to Elect Candidates of Choice and Settle Voting Rights Act Case”
Press release:
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and co-counsel Neil Bradley, on behalf of the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten Black voters, have successfully settled a… Continue reading
Read an Excerpt from the Introduction to Plutocrats United
Posted here, at BillMoyers.com.
And if you want to read more, here’s the link to buy the book.
“FEC Complaint Filed Against Senator Ted Cruz and His 2012 Senate Campaign for Failure to Report Loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank and Possible Improper Use of Assets to Secure the Loans”
Release:
Today, the Campaign Legal Center, with Democracy 21, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) urging the FEC to investigate apparent violations of campaign finance laws by Senator Ted Cruz and the 2012 Cruz for Senate… Continue reading
Richard Alarcon Gets New Trial in CA Residency Case
The unananimous, unpublished Court of Appeal opinion is here. The basis for the reversal (for Alarcon and his wife) was instructional error: the court held that the use of a mandatory presumption impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from… Continue reading
CA Legislature Wants CA Supreme Court to Put Anti-Citizens United Petition on the November Ballot
I’ve written about at CA Supreme Court decision holding that the CA legislature had the right to put on the ballot asking voters if the CA legislature should urge Congress to pass a constitutional amendment “overturning” Citizens United. (I might… Continue reading
“New Wrinkle in Wis. Campaign Finance Probe”
Courthouse News Service:
MADISON, Wis. (CN) – Two targets of a secret campaign-finance probe hamstrung by the Wisconsin Supreme Court say the recently ousted investigator made misrepresentations about his searches and subpoenas.
Named pseudonymously in the filing, Unnamed Movants 6… Continue reading