The USA Today has this front page story on caucus-related non-profits and lobbyist support. Under congressional rules, the caucuses face limits on how much public money they can use to support their activities. They also are barred from using private funds to operate. However, nothing stops lobbyists from writing big checks to the non-profits connected […]
Month: July 2009
Rep. Ellison’s Trip
According to Politico, some have called for an investigation into a trip Rep. Keith Ellison took to Saudi Arabia. Ellison, the first Muslim to serve in Congress, traveled to the Saudi holy city shortly before the inauguration — a trip paid for by he Muslim American Society of Minnesota, which has been paid about $900,000 […]
Citizens United Briefs
Supplemental briefs are in for the Citizens United case. The government’s is here and Rick Hasen has Citizens United’s here. According to the docket, the government filed a motion for divided argument on July 23. ScotusBlog has more on that here. It asks the Justices to grant 10 minutes of the United States’ argument time to […]