Category: Florida

Political law links for today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 11, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia

POLITICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RESURGENCE. WSJ. “You know the 2016 election is heating up when the Justice Department announces it’s gearing up to prosecute campaign-finance ‘coordination’ between candidates and outside groups. If you thought the IRS targeting of conservative nonprofits was troubling, watch what Justice can do to criminalize political speech.” CONTRIBUTION V. BRIBE. Marketplace. “Members […]

Political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 21, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, California, Florida, LDA, Maine

MAYDAY COMPLAINT. CCP. “The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) today filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Mayday PAC, the self-proclaimed ‘SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs,’ founded by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig.” D TWITTER PIONEERS. HuffPo. “In 2012, the Democratic Party shared information about advertising buys through a seemingly unconnected Twitter account […]

Political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date October 30, 2014
Categories In A.M. Report, California, Florida, New York, Oregon

NPR ON THE RULES. NPR. “A huge amount of what we call outside spending, which is super PACs and political nonprofits that can’t coordinate with candidates but can spend whatever they want – a huge amount of that money is pouring through groups that don’t disclose anything in real time about their donors and disclose […]