Category: FEC

Monday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 23, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, FEC, Foreign Laws, House, LDA, New Mexico

WH PETITION HITS 13K SIGNATURES. Althouse notes that an effort to petition the White House sparked by recent comments of Chris Dodd has over 13,000 signatures. COLBERT POKING FUN. Story here. “He said he must stand for corporations because, without legs, they cannot stand for themselves.” COLBERT AND HIS UNFUNNY RUN. Colbert King explains here. […]

All Citizens United in today’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 20, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases, FEC

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CU. Tomorrow will be two years. Instead of my usual collection of links, here are some views and stories marking the anniversary. Have a great weekend. Remember then? “Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban […]

Good morning, here are Thursday’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 19, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, California, DC, FEC

KELNER ON SUPER PACS. PBS NewsHour featured a story on super PACs with Covington & Burling’s Robert Kelner, whose segment begins at the 5:28 mark. SPOTLIGHT ON SUPER PACS. Politico. “But when it comes to super PACs, it seems we are all insiders now. The arcana of campaign finance regulation — the dark science of […]