The Boulder District Attorney's Office has concluded that New Era Colorado did not violate any election laws in offering rides to the polls and slices of pizza to prospective voters at the University of Colorado last month.Source: No quid pro quo in New Era Colorado's free pizza and rides to the polls, Boulder DA rules...
Update: This story has been updated to clarify Facebook’s ad-review process. In September, an ad with the headline, “New Approval Ratings For President Trump Announced And It’s Not Going The Way You Think,” targeted Facebook users in the U.S.Source: Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware...
President Trump led an aggressive charge Monday on behalf of embattled Senate nominee Roy Moore, with the Republican National Committee rejoining Moore’s side in Alabama weeks after cutting ties with him following allegations of sexual misconduct.Source: RNC to support Roy Moore in Senate race in Alabama, weeks after cutting ties with his campaign...
If you spend too many days at academic conferences — admittedly an occupational hazard if you are a professor — inevitably you will hear this phrase: “That problem is a feature and not a bug.Source: Congress could hardwire dark money into our democracy...
During the time-honored tradition of contentious political discussions at the Thanksgiving dinner table, one of your relatives may have mentioned the amount of money ($6.4 Billion) spent in the 2016 election cycle, asserting that there is “too much money in politics.Source: Let’s Talk Turkey: Comparing 2016 Election and Thanksgiving Spending...
Revelations last month that the Clinton campaign’s joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) fueled accusations that the primary was “rigged.”The agreement was certainly problematic.Source: How the GOP Senate Could Supercharge Clinton-Style Joint Fundraising Committees...
In this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, South Dakota Republican U.S. Sen. John Thune speaks in Rapid City, S.D. Thune faces Democratic challenger Jay Williams, a businessman from Yankton, in the Nov. 8, 2016 election. (Chris Huber/Rapid City Journal via AP, File)Source: Sen. John Thune’s $11M campaign fund rakes in investment money...
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WASHINGTON – The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, sitting en banc, today unanimously rejected a First Amendment challenge in Holmes, et. al v.Source: Appeals Court cpholds per-election contribution limit in Holmes, et. al v. FEC...
Washington’s foreign agents are able to operate in a legal gray zone thanks to ambiguities in the law and less-than-stringent enforcement. Foreign lobbying has come to the forefront due to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia and the Trump campaign.Source: Foreign lobbying law open to exploitation...
