CAMPAIGN DONATES TO CHARITY.  The Post.  “The donations were a way to get rid of tainted political donations from a shady donor (candidates may return illegal donations either by giving them to the U.S. Treasury or to a charity).”

PAC LEGAL FEES.  Politico.  “House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s political action committee doled out more than $14,000 to a D.C. law firm in June, thousands of dollars more than it usually spends on legal fees.”

TUMBLR AND CFR.  Here.  “How our nation’s founding fathers would feel about Tumblr is as impossible for the Supreme Court to know as how James Madison would have felt about violent video games. But fortunately there’s a new Tumblr blog available to help the justices understand how the framers of the Constitution felt about ‘corruption’ in politics.”

DEAN BACKLASH.  Time.  “Howard Dean is annoyed. He wants his own arguments to be evaluated on their merits, regardless of where he works these days.”

SUPER PAC HAUL.  USAT.  “The super PAC is missing an official candidate, but the political action committee encouraging Hillary Rodham Clinton to seek the presidency in 2016 has raised $1.25 million.”

BRIBING FOREIGN OFFICIALS ALLEGED.  Justice.gov.  “A former senior executive of a French power and transportation company has been charged in a second superseding indictment for his alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials.”

IL:  FOCUS ON RULES.  Story here.  “Madigan, a Chicago Democrat and arguably the most powerful politician in Springfield, has asked the Legislative Ethics Commission to review whether he violated any rules when he asked the Metra rail agency for a raise for an associate who had raised campaign money for him, and a separate accusation that he sought a job for another associate.”

HAVE A GOOD DAY.  I’ll send around the next set of links next week.  Posting will be light until after Labor Day.