To defend the post-McCain-Feingold version of campaign finance reform, proponents have taken special pains to say that it did not really hurt the political parties. They bounced back, engineered new ways to raise money, became perhaps even stronger.Source: CFI On the State of the Political Parties: Is It Working Out After All?...
The Constitution protects the rights of every American, including free speech, with the understanding that some limits can be placed on your conduct if it infringes on the rights of another American.Source: When “Free Speech” By Special Interests Tramples On The Rights Of Citizens...
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and joint party committees continued to direct funds to his companies in the first quarter of the year, paying close to $500,000 to Trump-owned hotels, golf clubs and restaurants, according to new campaign-finance disclosures.Source: Donald Trump’s Companies Benefit From Campaign Funds...
Former chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission Ann Ravel recently spoke at an event at UC Berkeley titled “Future of Democracy” where she discussed the possible need for regulating political speech and ads on social media.Source: Former FEC Chairwoman Suggests Regulating Political Speech on Social Media...
Via Bloomberg BNA, comes news of this motion to dismiss or affirm a challenge brought by the Republican Party of Louisiana to the soft money limits in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the McCain-Feingold law). The Court upheld those limits in McConnell v.Source: In Surprise Move, Trump DOJ Defends McCain-Feingold’s Soft Money Limits at #SCOTUS...
Election Day, 2016? Now an ancient memory from a distant time. But the intervening months have allowed us to do some math and determine, finally, the price tag for the whole shebang. We can now report that the total cost of the election was nearly $6.Source: Election 2016: Trump’s free media helped keep cost down, but fewer donors provided more of...
WASHINGTON — At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump told those gathered that he supported the “right to worship according to our own beliefs.” For many Catholics there Feb.Source: Pulpit Politics: Will Trump’s plan for religious freedom make churches the next SuperPACs?...
When Ann Ravel resigned from her post at the Federal Election Commission earlier this year, she made it clear that her activism would continue from outside the agency.Source: Ravel’s Support for Ending PACs Exposes Her Long-Term Policy Goals...
A dozen House members from both parties have introduced legislation to restructure the Federal Election Commission to help break deadlocks over campaign finance law enforcement.Source: Lawmakers launch bipartisan effort to break FEC stalemate...
Last week the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection division demanded that Twitter reveal the identity of the person behind an account that has been criticizing the Trump administration. The agency had no authority to issue such a demand, and quickly retracted it. But you could not have scripted a better incident to confirm the worst fears of Trump administration critics about...
