Seeing the federal government slip into Republican hands is terrifying campaign finance experts, who are bracing for a wave of deregulation that could give millionaires and billionaires powerful new ways to influence American politics.Source: Republicans plan to "drain the swamp" by gutting campaign finance laws...
Brett J. Talley is a lawyer, author, one-time writer for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and former speechwriter for Sen. Rob Portman. He is deputy solicitor general at the office of Alabama's attorney general. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.Source: Who Donald Trump should appoint to the Supreme Court...
A super PAC run by close allies to President-elect Donald Trump is under FEC scrutiny for discrepancies in a filing it made during the presidential campaign, drawing renewed attention to a watchdog group's complaint alleging it funneled improper payments to Steve Bannon, Trump's campaign CEO andSource: Watchdog Group Alleges Illegal Super PAC Payments To Steve Bannon...
Good-government types were already crying foul over Donald Trump's intention to put his children in charge of his business during his presidency. And now that those same children are on Trump's transition team, these groups are even more concerned about conflicts of interest.Source: Giuliani explains why Trump can’t do a real blind trust: It ‘would basically put his children out of...
WASHINGTON — When Donald J. Trump issued his final list of 21 potential nominees to the Supreme Court in September, he made a vow. “This list is definitive,” he said, “and I will choose only from it in picking future justices of the Supreme Court.” Note the plural: justices.Source: Trump’s Supreme Court List: Ivy League? Out. The Heartland? In....
Google and Facebook have faced mounting criticism over how fake news on their sites may have influenced the presidential election’s outcome. Those companies responded by making it clear that they would not tolerate such misinformation by taking pointed aim at fake news sites’ revenue sources.Source: Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, behind in the polls, has started claiming that the election will be stolen from him because it is “rigged.Source: Can you rig a U.S. presidential election? Experts say it’s basically impossible....
On Election Night 2016, a private chat sprang up on Facebook among several vice presidents and executives of the social network. What role, they asked each other, had their company played in the election’s outcome?Source: Facebook, in Cross Hairs After Election, Is Said to Question Its Influence...
The Democratic National Committee lost its latest bid to intimidate Republican candidates, state and local parties, and voters away from lawfully observing election processes at the polls as Democrats do.Source: Democrats Lose Bid to Extend Consent Decree: No Evidence of RNC Violation...
