We’ve already seen one former lobbyist win a contested primary. How will lobbyists running for office hold up this election cycle? CQ reports.
Month: May 2010
Elena Kagan, champion of corporate speech rights?
Huffington Post analyzes some of Elena Kagan’s writings on the First Amendment here. Looking at Elena Kagan’s scholarship, I doubt she agrees with Barack Obama and Justice Stevens, who dissented in Citizens United, and suspect she is a defender of corporate speech rights.
Secret holds live on, despite HLOGA?
The Post discusses “secret holds.” Wasn’t the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (HLOGA) aimed at stopping secret holds? What went wrong? (That’s sarcasm, which is always dangerous on the internet.) In 2007, we reported the happy news that, with the new ethics and lobbying law, “those who place holds on legislation must […]