Month: April 2010

Missouri campaign and ethics reforms move ahead

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 15, 2010
Categories In Missouri

Here’s the latest on campaign finance and ethics reform in Missouri.

Q1 HLOGA deadline creeping up

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 15, 2010
Categories In HLOGA

Before we move on to whatever new reports and deadlines Van Hollen-Schumer will surely bring, take a moment to refresh your recollection of the report deadlines for new reports required by the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 available here. Next up? The First Quarter Report.

George Will on who’s best for SCOTUS

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 15, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

George Will notes Citizens United in this morning’s column about Justice Stevens’s replacement. The recent decision most pleasing to conservatives was this year’s Citizens United, wherein the court overturned part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. The four liberal justices deplored the conservatives’ refusal to defer to Congress’s expertise in regulating political speech. So conservatives […]