Category: California

political law links for today

THROW OUT PROPOSAL.  Sen. Hatch.  “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen calling for the agency to cancel its plans to broaden a proposed rule that would further restrict the speech and activities of a wide range of tax exempt organizations.” CRUZ STRUCTURE.  […]

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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 […]

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REPORT DISMISSED.  WSAU.  “Walker told a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter he has not engaged in any of the conduct mentioned in the Yahoo account.” SERIOUS ABOUT ETHICS.  RC.  “In the middle of a highly charged atmosphere on Capitol Hill, there is one center of bipartisanship in each chamber of Congress that remains above politics: the Ethics committees. […]