MCCUTCHEON ARG. TRANSCRIPT. SCOTUS.
LIPTAK ON MCCUTCHEON. NYT. “The justices seemed to divide along familiar ideological lines.”
ALTHOUSE ON LIPTAK ON MCCUTCHEON. Here. “Scalia responded ‘sarcastically.’ Why an adverb for Scalia’s statement and not for Ginsburg’s?”
SKEPTICAL OF LIMITS. Roll Call. “If anything, today’s arguments revealed that the court’s conservative majority remains reluctant to defend campaign finance restrictions of any kind.”
FEC ENFORCEMENT OF BIENNIAL LIMIT. Off the top of my head, there are only a few post-BCRA FEC matters with a conciliation agreement involving an allegation of exceeding the biennial limit, the issue in McCutcheon. Here’s another.
RING UPDATE. Here. “Former lobbyist and congressional staffer Kevin Ring, whose long legal ordeal began in the wake of the Jack Abramoff case, has lost what appears to be his last shot before the Supreme Court.”
FEC RECALL. Levinthal. “A computer server crash is forcing the government shutdown-idled Federal Election Commission to recall “a few staff people” to address the issue with major campaign finance filing deadlines looming.”
SUPER PAC UP. Here. “American Commitment Action Fund released an ad on Tuesday responding to Bloomberg’s ad, which highlighted Booker’s record on education, saying money the Newark mayor secured from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg didn’t go to Newark school classrooms and the schools were still failing.”
EMAIL QUESTIONS. WFB. “Leaked emails in which a left-wing nonprofit promotes events by the President Obama-aligned Organizing for Action and circulates Democratic Party talking points on the government shutdown may be a possible violation of rules governing tax-exempt status for such organizations, experts say.”
CA: SUNSHINE IN CA. LAT. “Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday to give Californians a better peek into the wallets of their elected officials and to provide the state’s ethics watchdog agency with more tools to hold politicians accountable for misconduct.”
DC: FILE FOOD FIGHT. The Post. “The battle simmering for months between the D.C. government’s ethics board and its investigative watchdog got a full public airing Monday, and it wasn’t pretty.”
IN: ETHICS QUESTIONS. Story here. “The State Ethics Commission is taking up questions from officials considering leaving their state jobs.”
NY: ETHICS BOARD REINED IN. Story here. “Now some of the groups that had cheered the commission’s creation say they fear that the effort to investigate corruption is losing credibility.”
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