TESTING PRIVACY. WTSP. “President Donald Trump supporters, listen up – someone is posting your name, how much you’ve donated, where you live and what you do all in one place online.” ETHICS ACCUSATION. USN. “Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt over a planned May 5 appearance as the […]
Month: April 2017
Political Law Links for April 26, 2017
FORMER TREASURER SENTENCED. OCR. “A Republican activist who embezzled more than $200,000 from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s re-election campaign was ordered Tuesday to serve a year in jail and five years of formal probation and to pay back the money he stole.” JUDGE SETS PENALTY. DM. “Former Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell and her campaign committee have been fined […]
Political law links for April 25, 2017
SUPREME COURT DENIES. REU. “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by an Alabama black-voter outreach group with close ties to the state’s Democratic Party of a lower court’s ruling that upheld a state ban on cash transfers between political action committees.” PACS SPEND. BNA. “Political action committees received and spent […]