MONEY IN POLITICS VIDEO. Check out Politico’s excellent money in politics video series. Today’s set of videos features former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Wiley Rein partner Michael Toner. EDWARDS AND ENSIGN. Politico. “Defense lawyers for former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), who’s facing criminal campaign finance charges for arranging for two supporters to […]
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Political law links for Wed., Oct. 26th
LAWSUIT OVER ELECTION LOSS? Peter Roff writes here. “When voters in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District threw Democrat Steve Driehaus out of office after only one term, he did not bow out gracefully. No, he decided to get even. So he did what anyone does in today’s culture: he sued somebody.” CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DONORS’ CHILDREN. Story […]
Political law links for Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011
MCCAIN MUGGED? Politico. ““What happened to [McCain] was, he — I think he feels he got mugged first by the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, who walked away from the public financing of the general election, and then by the press, who let Obama get away with it,” said [Trevor] Potter in an interview for POLITICO’s […]