Month: October 2009

Jury in trial of Kevin Ring breaks deliberations until next week

The Anticorruption Republican blog reports that the jury in the Kevin Ring trial has been excused from deliberations until next week.

Win a dinner with a Nobel Peace Prize winner! And the legal issues of political contest rules

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 9, 2009
Categories In FEC

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is holding a contest. The prize? Dinner with none other than Nobel Peace Prize winner President Barack Obama. Contests run by candidates or political organizations usually have interesting contest rules that reflect legal and political considerations. Sorry, residents of Rhode Island, per the contest rules you’re not eligible. (Laws covering […]

Ideas for government agency website URLs

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 9, 2009
Categories In FEC

Al Kamen riffs on government website URLs here, in light of the Department of Justice’s new Justice.gov site. He’s holding a contest to solicit more ideas. A reader suggested that other agencies might want to follow suit. They could adopt catchy names, ones that would normally come to mind when people think about those agencies, […]