FEC MEETING. The agenda for next Thursday’s meeting of the Federal Election Commission is available here. SUPER PAC TEST. Roll Call reports that a new advisory opinion request has been filed. “Less than a week after Republicans said they would use federal lawmakers, candidates and party officials to raise unlimited money for an election advertisement […]
Month: May 2011
Koch, Colbert, (c)(4)’s, and birth certificate fundraising in today’s political law links
COPY OF KOCH SITE CASE. Volokh covers Koch Industries v. Does here. “In this case, a group called ‘Youth for Climate Truth’ copied the Koch Industries website (kochind.com) and created a fake website designed to look just like it at koch-inc.com.” Orin Kerr writes that the case was correctly decided against Koch. QUESTIONING THE (C)(4) […]
Political law links for Wednesday
“WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE. LOVE, THE IRS.” WSJ editorial. “A tax probe of donations given by a specific class of political donors is a boldfaced attempt to punish and discourage political speech.” NEW SUPER PAC NEWS. LA Times. “Indiana attorney James Bopp Jr., one of the lawyers who brought the watershed Citizens United case […]