Since the Supreme Court handed down Citizens United, which expanded the ways corporations can spend money to influence elections, there has been an accelerating drumbeat of calls for heightened disclosure requirements.Source: Guess who's addressing money-in-politics? It's not the government...
Hackers will target American voting machines—as a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are.Source: Top hacker conference to target voting machines...
“Money in politics” obsessives have long been frustrated at the lack of scholarly support for the notion that political spending directly alters legislative votes, which would help them to push for greater political speech restrictions.Source: Washington Examiner: New study fails to prove that money sways politicians, despite activists’ excitement (In the News)...
The agency, already investigating a Trump complaint, is called on to consider reports that Russian agents bought Facebook ads.Source: FEC member urges escalated Trump-Russia inquiry...
We’ll stipulate that President Trump’s problems with the Federal Election Commission don’t rise to the highest tier of his concerns these days, not by a long shot.Source: It’s not over: The FEC is on the job with messy 2016 reporting by Trump campaign and JFCs...
White House officials are seeking to stop the federal government’s top ethics officer from getting details about waivers granted to lobbyists and other appointees working in the administration, intensifying a power struggle between President Trump and the ethics agency. Walter M. Shaub Jr.Source: Power struggle intensifies between White House and ethics office...
WASHINGTON A bipartisan bill introduced on Thursday would prohibit members of the U.S. Congress from ever working as lobbyists after they leave the Senate or House of Representatives.Source: U.S. senators seek lifetime ban on ex-Congress members lobbying...
President Trump has hung a map of the 2016 election results on a wall in the White House and hands out copies to visitors. But the map greatly exaggerates the extent of his win. Here's a closer look at the map that he should be promoting insteadSource: Time.com...
In two weeks the Georgia Republican Party will have a new chairman. Who that will be is a somewhat less pressing question than what a state party is anymore.Source: Opinion: For the Georgia GOP, what is a state party anyway?...
As California Democrats wrap up their weekend convention, progressive activists have said loudly and clearly that they want big money out of politics — a position that’s been in the state party’s official platform for years.Source: Political Road Map: Democrats not only dominate California elections, the party is king of campaign cash...
