Lawmakers from both parties had a clear message to Silicon Valley at a trio of Capitol Hill hearings on Tuesday: We don’t trust you. The gauntlet of grillings kicked off with Sen.Source: The Technology 202...
Some Democrats with ambitions for the White House are finding that their most generous donors are their old campaign accounts, Federal Election Commission reports show.Source: Old Election Cash Gives New Life to Some Democratic Presidential Candidates...
At issue is an investigation led by the Southern District of New York connected to Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer to Trump who is serving a three-year prison term in part for breaking campaign finance law.Source: Feds’ probe into Trump hush money payments is over, judge says...
The New York Times reported on the current status of 2020 emocratic race.Source: Only 5 Dems Have the Money to Go Forward With Their 2020 Campaigns...
A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss the campaign finance violation case against California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter. In San Diego federal court, US District Judge Thomas J.Source: Federal judge refuses to dismiss campaign finance violation case against Rep. Duncan Hunter...
That’s how Democrats in Congress are blasting the largest fine the federal government has ever imposed on a tech company for failing to uphold its promises to improve its privacy practices.Source: The Technology 202...
A decade ago, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation was looking for a short phrase to put before the following fact: “Of the 202 outside organizations spending money to influence the 2010 mid-term elections, just 93 of them have disclosed donors to Federal Election Commission” (FEC).Source: The Etymology of “Dark Money”...
Nearly two years after then-California Gov. Jerry Brown quashed a bill to force presidential candidates to release their tax returns, Golden State lawmakers have returned a nearly identical measure to the desk of Brown's successor. Now California Gov.Source: Will Gavin Newsom try to kick Trump off the California ballot?...
The Electoral College has many critics, from frustrated partisans to political scientists convinced of their own ability to improve on the work of the American Founders.Source: Presidential popular vote compact would lead to chaos...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — To describe what he would do as president in 2021, Steve Bullock harks back to the Gilded Age of the late 1800s, when the wealthy copper mining barons of Montana wielded political influence across the state.Source: For Democratic presidential hopeful Steve Bullock, it’s all about the ‘dark money’...
