What does a lobbyist audit look like? Tennessee is a one of a few states that makes its audits available online. Meanwhile, a controversy is stirring about the Tennessee Ethics Commission and its enforcement stance regarding alleged violations arising from the audits. The Tennessee Ethics Commission voted against trying to penalize lobbyists who were found […]
Day: May 18, 2009
Internet Voting, There’s an App for That
Campaigns & Elections reports on what they say is the nation’s first all-internet election.
Souter’s Retirement: New Dawn for Golden Age of Political Speech?
Eliza Newlin Carney of National Journal discusses the future of campaign finance regulation at the Supreme Court minus Justice David Hackett Souter. What worries lawyers defending the existing regulations is not that the Roberts court will overturn the campaign finance rules wholesale. Rather, they foresee the Supreme Court continuing its pattern over the past two […]