MENENDEZ CASE AND THE NEW WORLD. NorthJersey.com. “‘People are looking at this as though the Justice Department feels it has to step in in the place of the Federal Election Commission and be the primary enforcer, or at least a more assertive enforcer, of campaign finance laws in light of the lack of action by […]
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TESTING COMPLAINTS. NYT. “The groups, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, filed formal complaints with the Federal Election Commission against four undeclared candidates for president: Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rick Santorum, all Republicans; and Martin O’Malley, a Democrat.” TESTING LIMITS. FT. “As a raft of Democrats and Republicans line up to formally […]
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POLITICAL DRONE LAW. Politico. “It’s hard to quantify how many political ads have been filmed using drones because the technique is still fairly new and its use remains limited to a relatively few firms.” SUPER PAC MYTHS. R. Lenhard. “Few subjects in federal campaign finance law are so frequently garbled by commentators, the press and […]