Author: Eric Brown

4-7 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 7, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, California, Missouri, Montana, Vermont

MENENDEZ INDICTMENT CHANGES EVERYTHING. BI. “It will be up to a jury to decide whether the doctor and the senator engaged in corruption. But the facts asserted in the indictment are sufficient to call into question the court’s underlying thinking in Citizens United.” WHAT’S LEFT. MinnPost. “The two fundamental ideas around which the entire post-Watergate […]

Here are today’s political law links, 4-2

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 2, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, Const Law Issues, DC, IRS, Minnesota

SENATOR INDICTED. WP. “Federal prosecutors unveiled a 14-count indictment Wednesday of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), one of his party’s leading voices on foreign affairs, charging him with using his office to benefit an eye doctor in exchange for many gifts over their decades of friendship.” INDICTMENT NEWS. Star Ledger. “Also indicted was Menendez’s friend and […]

4-1-15 political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 1, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, Connecticut, FEC, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia

TESTING COMPLAINTS. NYT. “The groups, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, filed formal complaints with the Federal Election Commission against four undeclared candidates for president: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rick Santorum, all Republicans; and Martin O’Malley, a Democrat.” TESTING LIMITS. FT. “As a raft of Democrats and Republicans line up to formally […]