Category: Courts & Cases

Did you know a former governor is on trial right now?  It’s former Governor of Puerto Rico Anibal Acevedo Vila and he’s facing charges related to campaign finance.  How’s the case going?  “Until now, the government has not presented sufficient evidence that he knew about the scheme,” [Judge] Barbadoro said in the absence of jurors. […]

Here’s the latest on The PMA Group controversy from The Post. Some Democrats suggested that PMA’s leaders, who have won hundreds of millions of dollars for their clients in congressional earmarks, may be guilty of a straw donor system for political contributions — but that the clients themselves could still be worthy of the roughly […]

We owe a debt of gratitude to the Supreme Court for this transcript of the argument in Caperton v. Massey Coal.  What, if anything, in the Court’s opinion will speak to campaign finance law?  The oral argument features Justice Scalia mentioning the “527 loophole” and Justice Breyer musing about the terminology of an appropriate standard […]