A new website advocates passage of S. 223, a bill relating to the disclosure of campaign finance reports for Senate candidates. The legislation has not been brought to the floor, according to a Campaign Finance Institute email I received, because of an issue surrounding a proposed amendment to the bill.
The web has some information on the author of EMILY’s List v. FEC. Click here for the District Court’s website’s biography of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Wikipedia also has an entry. A previous opinion (finding constitutional BCRA’s electioneering communications provisions), quoting Elihu Root, is familiar to those who follow campaign finance law. Warning, the file is […]
CCP has this interesting post on public financing in California. Some members of the California legislature are apparently a little hard of hearing. The California Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing today on A.B. 583, which seeks to establish a government-financed election program for the 2014 Secretary of State race. A.B. 583 amends the Political […]