Category: Const Law Issues

Post: Campaigns Seek to Curb 527’s

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 14, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, FEC, IRS

The Post reports that the presidential campaigns are seeking to curb 527’s involvement “in hopes of controlling the tone and message of the general-election campaign.”

Political Contributions from Minors

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 12, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues, FEC

The Charleston Daily Mail reports that an 11-year-old contributed $440 to the Clinton campaign. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 banned certain contributions from minors; McConnell struck the ban. The Federal Election Commission subsequently passed a rulemaking clarifying when minors can give using their own funds.

“Disenfranchised Over There”

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 12, 2008
Categories In Const Law Issues

“Disenfranchised Over There” in The Weekly Standard discusses the important issue of how to facilitate voting by military personnel based outside the United States. The Military Voting Protection Act appears to address some of the issues mentioned in the article, and the article considers an additional solution: Imagine a system where Congress and the states […]