Local newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Maryland law intended to make political advertising more transparent and prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections.Source: Why Newsrooms Are Challenging Maryland's Online Ad Law...
While the odds are low for any case to be heard by the Supreme Court, the request by the court for a response statistically changes the likelihood from 3.5% to 17%.Source: Austin's Campaign Finance Restriction Could Reach Supreme Court - Texas Scorecard...
The couple is accused of misusing campaign funds for vacations, dentistry and other personal expenses. A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted California GOP Rep.Source: GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife indicted on charges of misusing campaign funds...
Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer, made the extraordinary admission in court on Tuesday that he had arranged payments to two women at Mr. Trump’s behest to secure their silence about affairs they said they had with him. Mr.Source: Michael Cohen Says He Arranged Payments to Women at Trump’s Direction...
Republican megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $25 million last month to the Senate Leadership Fund, the flagship super PAC charged with keeping the Senate in Republican hands, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission.Source: Adelsons shell out $25 million to keep Senate in GOP hands...
Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Benjamin L. Cardin are concerned about Russian ownership of a Maryland election contractor. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo) Maryland’s Democratic senators want a Senate committee to require disclosures of foreign investments in U.S.Source: A Russian Oligarch Bought Maryland’s Election Vendor. Now These Senators Want Action...
Jesse Unruh, the legendary speaker of the state Assembly during the 1960s, was fond of pithy quips, and one of his more enduring is that “money is the mother’s milk of politics.Source: Walters: ‘Biggest rollback of campaign finance law’ weighed...
Mere days after it sprang to life in a burst of paperwork, the new super PAC Red and Gold spent nearly $1 million attacking Rep. Martha McSally, a battleground GOP Senate candidate favored by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. But first, Red and Gold took a step to hide its tracks.Source: 'Oh that's cool — do that!': Super PACs use new...
I am compiling this ongoing compendium of materials on the Kavanaugh nomination in order to give the interested reader guided access to selected items that I consider worth reading. I have not attempted to be exhaustive, nor does my inclusion of an item mean that I necessarily agree with it.Source: A Compendium on the Kavanaugh Nomination...
For more than four decades, when Republicans needed strategic advice drawing political boundaries, the party turned to a small cadre of expert cartographers, trained in the rare art of redistricting. At the heart of that group was Tom Hofeller.Source: Pioneer of modern redistricting dies at 75...
