Donald Trump went after the family that owns the Chicago Cubs on Monday after campaign finance filings revealed that its matriarch, Marlene Ricketts, provided $3 million in seed money for a super PAC running attack ads against him.Source: Donald Trump warns owners of Chicago Cubs ‘better be careful’ after funding campaign against him...
As Jeb Bush and his team laid plans for the Republican primaries, they set out to have the best-financed superPAC ever. And for a time, they did. Right to Rise USA raised $118 million, and spent $94 million, even as Bush never came close to winning a primary.Source: Where Did All That Jeb Bush SuperPAC Money Go?...
Even the federal government says the director of a federal election agency erred when he allowed a group of red states to require proof of citizenship for those looking to vote. In a court filing Monday, the U.S.Source: Department of Justice disowns EAC director’s move on proof of citizenship for voters...
Over the last three months, more than 100 million US voters have had their data exposed online. These data breaches weren’t caused by a sophisticated hack or malware. Instead, political campaigns' abysmal cybersecurity practices are to blame.Source: Political campaigns collect tons of data, but they’re terrible at protecting it...
UCI Law Professor Rick Hasen and Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative D.C. think tank, will offer perspectives on the Supreme Court and the 2016 elections. The event will be moderated by UCI Law professor Henry Weinstein. The panelists will discuss questSource: UCILAW: The Supreme Court and the 2016 Elections...
Recognizing that political speech is at the core of what the First Amendment protects, the Supreme Court has applied constitutional scrutiny and established the two-track system under which government may regulate political speech.Source: The Constitutionality of State Law Triggering Political Committee(-Like) Burdens and the Current Circuit Splits...
Elections are about choices. For many California voters, these choices are put in stark partisan terms: casting ballots strictly for all Democrats or all Republicans. But the state’s new open primary gave us a new twist.Source: CA120: When open primary voters tune out...
Justice Scalia and Campaign Finance: A Puzzle -In voting as a member of the Roberts majority on campaign finance, Justice Scalia could be a reliable member of the “conservative bloc”, but also have his own reasons—just as Justices Kagan and Ginsburg may vote with Justice Breyer on campaign finance without sharing his theory of “Active Liberty.” Scalia accepted a role...
So here’s the case for Trump’s standing (as I alluded to in an earlier post): competitive standing. Here’s a 2008 federal district court case, Hollander v. McCain, involving a voter challenge to McCain’s eligibility to run for president: To be sure, courts have held that a candidate or his political party has standing to challenge the inclusion of an allegedly...
Conventional wisdom dictates that the presidential race is typically won by the candidate best able to appeal to the collective better angels of the American public, the person who can make us believe that hope and change, for example, is actually possible.Source: 2016: The ‘race to the bottom’ election...
