Day: August 5, 2008

EMILY’S List

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date August 5, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

The web has some information on the author of EMILY’s List v. FEC. Click here for the District Court’s website’s biography of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Wikipedia also has an entry. A previous opinion (finding constitutional BCRA’s electioneering communications provisions), quoting Elihu Root, is familiar to those who follow campaign finance law. Warning, the file is […]

CA: Public Financing

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date August 5, 2008
Categories In California

CCP has this interesting post on public financing in California. Some members of the California legislature are apparently a little hard of hearing. The California Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing today on A.B. 583, which seeks to establish a government-financed election program for the 2014 Secretary of State race. A.B. 583 amends the Political […]