Category: Senate

Good morning, here are today’s political law links (Mon., Feb. 4)

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 4, 2013
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Foreign Laws, IRS, LDA, Senate, Texas

MENENDEZ ALLEGATIONS. The Hill. “The bad news keeps coming: a Senate Ethics probe, allegations involving underage prostitutes, an FBI investigation of a key campaign donor, undisclosed flights on the donor’s private plane, and now, reports linking Menendez to an existing multi-million dollar contract he urged officials to enforce for the disgraced donor.” MENENDEZ ALLEGATIONS II. […]

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Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 3, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Executive Branch, FEC, House, LDA, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Senate, Tennessee, Wisconsin

OBAMA CAMPAIGN EMAIL STRATEGY. The reason for the informal subject line of this morning’s set of links will be clear after reading this Businessweek report. “One fascination in a presidential race mostly bereft of intrigue was the strange, incessant and weirdly overfamiliar e-mails emanating from the Obama campaign.” The article says that fundraising emails with […]

Tuesday’s political law links (11/13/12)

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date November 13, 2012
Categories In A.M. Report, Const Law Issues, FEC, IRS, Senate

WHAT 12 MEANS. The Times. “While the outcome of the 2012 elections dealt a blow to the wealthy donors who poured several hundred million dollars into groups seeking to defeat Mr. Obama, the president’s re-election does not presage a repudiation of the deregulated campaign financing unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. Instead, […]