Month: July 2014

7.31 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 31, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Mass., Mississippi

BRITAIN ON-LINE MAGAZINE VIEW ON US CAMPAIGN FINANCE. Spike. “When James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights, he and his enlightened peers believed their fellow men were potentially free-thinking, rational and autonomous agents, capable of enjoying ever-more freedom. Today we need a similar communal self-confidence; and we need to resist the calls to limit how […]

7.30 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 30, 2014
Categories In Uncategorized

ROCKEFELLER SUPER PAC SUPPORTER. WP. “Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller is retiring this year after 30 years of serving West Virginia. Although he’d probably like to retire to a peaceful, non-political life after decades of elections, a new potential hobby for the affluent (like Rockefeller) has popped up in the last few years that didn’t exist […]

7.29 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date July 29, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, California, FEC, Foreign Laws, Mass., Montana, New York, Virginia

STEALTH LOBBYISTS BEWARE. Holland and Knight (C. DeLacy). “The recently released 2014 first quarter report of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) disclosed that one ‘entity’ had been referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for ‘failure to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act.’” SUPER PAC CAMPAIGNS. WP. “In fact, there […]