DoJ’s Public Integrity section got a new chief and the news is here. Mainjustice.com’s story is here.
Month: March 2010
Keeping earmark funding flowing
The Times reports on recent developments in earmarking here. No one was willing to predict on Thursday how that confrontation might play out. Meanwhile, defense contractors and the “K Street” lobbyists in Washington who often represent them were planning new ways of packaging their financing requests — and trying to keep the revenue coming in. […]
As crocuses emerge, so do post-Citizens United groups
Politico reports on the activity of two nonprofits, the League of American Voters and the Committee for Truth in Politics. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision lopped off a major portion of American campaign finance regulation, leading critics to warn that elections would become prey to a new wave of anonymous money and aggressive political […]