17 Sep

Bradley Smith is chairman of the Institute for Free Speech, a former Republican chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.Source: Is attempting to sway Susan Collins’s vote breaking the law? It’s hard to tell....

04:19 / Brad Smith / bribery / Campaign Finance / Election Law / Ethics / supreme court / vblog / y class
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28 Jul

Liberal activists, who were dramatically outspent in their last fight to fend off President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, are embracing a tactic that has been a mainstay of the conservative political playbook: tapping a war chest financed by unidentified donors to try to influence judicial nominSource: Liberal activists embrace ‘dark money’ in Supreme Court fight...

16:17 / Campaign Finance / dark money / nonprofit / supreme court / vblog
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15 Jul

Top legal thinkers weigh the record of Brett Kavanaugh, the likely replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy. In the end, President Donald Trump made the expected choice: Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative jurist who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.Source: Trump Picked Kavanaugh. How Will He Change the Supreme Court?...

06:03 / Campaign Finance / Election Law / supreme court / vblog
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