The Post editorializes on the topic this morning. Big-money special interests — including business, trial lawyers, lobbyists and unions — are playing an even bigger role in funding campaigns to ensure the election of judges to their liking. Judicial candidates curry favor with potential benefactors for fear of losing valuable campaign cash to opponents. The […]
Month: August 2010
New campaign finance cop: the IRS
The Post reports. The Supreme Court’s decision this year in Citizens United, which lifted campaign spending restrictions for companies and interest groups, has indirectly thrust the Internal Revenue Service into the more prominent role of overseeing those expenditures. . . . The IRS has limited ability to enforce its rules. It cannot fine groups for […]
“Arguing past each other” on campaign finance reform
From CSM.