Month: March 2010

White House Counsel Bob Bauer’s year in photos (courtesy of the White House)

Rick Hasen recently asked, “So what’s Bob Bauer been up to since leaving election law for the [White House] Counsel’s Office?”  In addition to the Politico article mentioned in his post, we now have some photographic evidence of Bauer’s work courtesy of the White House website’s featured photo gallery with “a collection of never-before-seen photos […]

What to “keep in mind” in corporate blogs and tweets

The Wall Street Journal notes that corporate blogs and tweets can “run afoul of Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on corporate communications.”   What about corporate blogs and tweets that expressly support or oppose candidates?  Citizens United explains that free expression’s “creative dynamic” counsels against restriction of political speech in “certain media or by certain speakers.”  […]

More American Crossroads news

UtI has more news on American Crossroads here. American Crossroads, a fledgling 527 political organization that hopes to raise some $60 million to help dozens of congressional Republican incumbents and candidates in this year’s elections, has snared Steven J. Law, the general counsel at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to run its operations and raise […]