This article reports that there’s an investigation into whether an Arizona state political party accepted impermissible contributions. The state attorney general is investigating allegations that the Arizona Republican Party broke campaign finance laws by failing to identify who provided $105,000 in contributions after the secretary of state determined there was reasonable cause to believe a […]
Public financing was not a topic of recent conversation between Obama and McCain, according to this report. President-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain talked Monday about reforming parts of the political process, but they skipped a good governance issue of mutual interest over which they sparred bitterly during their campaign: fixing the public […]
“Juror 11” from the Stevens trial has a blog. The AmLaw Daily seems to have identified the juror. Colleen Walsh, a.k.a. Juror No. 11, discussed the jury’s deliberations, her assessment of the lawyers for both sides, and Stevens’s performance on the stand. The juror suggested–as many trial observers had guessed–that Stevens didn’t help himself by […]