12 Oct

In a little-known case out of Alaska, the federal courts have been weighing whether the U.S. Constitution allows states to impose limits on out-of-state contributions, an issue that could soon come to a head at the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Thompson v.Source: USA Today: Out-of-state donors are pouring cash into local campaigns of Democrats across the country (In the News)...

06:17 / 2018 / Election Law / vblog
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12 Oct

Despair appears to be the common mood of the day. Everything is terrible. U.S. democratic norms have devolved so much that it seems impossible to know how to recover. Our political outcomes don’t consistently reflect our true aspirations.Source: Don't worry, all is not lost. State and local activists are fixing our elections...

06:17 / 2018 / Election Law / vblog
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11 Oct

In a time of deafening media noise, momentous revelations slip through unnoticed, none more explosive than a recent report under the venerable Atlantic Council's auspices. The subject concerns foreign dark money insidiously influencing our elections. And it's a rock-hard stick of dynamite.Source: The Latest Bombshell: How Dark Money From Hostile States Has Entered Our Elections...

19:37 / Campaign Finance / dark money / disclosure / russia / vblog
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05 Oct

The federal government went to the Supreme Court today, requesting a halt to the depositions of two senior Trump administration officials – Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and John Gore, the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – in a challenge to Ross’ decisioSource: Federal government asks justices to intervene in census dispute...

21:50 / supreme court / vblog
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