2002 American law regulating political campaigns
The latest cover story in Bloomberg Businessweek features former Bush adviser Karl Rove‘s assessment of current federal campaign spending rules: Rove’s return to the arena coincided with a major campaign-finance…
George Will‘s latest column suggests that those who crave more bipartisanship among government leaders should consider the history of bipartisan legislation: Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the…
George Will‘s latest column addresses the misguided furor over the impact of so-called Super PACs. Critics of super PACs — critics who were remarkably reticent in 2004 when George Soros…
A Raleigh audience will have a chance Dec. 15 to hear from Washington Examiner senior political columnist Timothy P. Carney, the featured speaker for the next John Locke Foundation Headliner…
The News & Observer, in an editorial entitled “Not so super,” once again criticizes the Citizens United case. In that U.S. Supreme Court case, the Court held that corporations and…
View in Your Browser National Popular Vote: Disenfranchising Voters The Charlotte Observer reprinted a Los Angeles Times editorial arguing in favor of the national popular vote. In such a system,…
Cecil Bothwell, who is running for Congress in the 11th District, disagrees with me and other right-wingers about Constitutional proscription of powers. In a recent blog, he stated: In actuality,…
Reading the newspapers today, one learns another candidate will compete in the 11th Congressional District race. In the interest of McCain-Feingold, I will provide neither names nor hyperlinks. However, coverage…
Some years ago, it was said McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform wasn’t worth the effort to understand because the best of lawyers had differing interpretations thereof. Henry Waxman’s 2000+ page monstrosity,…
? in Newsweek than to see Sandra Day O?Connor and John Paul Stevens deciding Supreme Court cases. Among the more interesting comments that flow out of their mutual admiration society…
In the headline of her latest Fortune column, Easton poses the following puzzler: If campaign finance reform is so important, why hasn?t it worked? Self-styled reformers will respond, of course,…
11:55 Final update. No call yet, but Republican Pat Toomey has moved past Joe Sestak to take the seat now held by serial party-switcher Arlen Specter. Good night, all. 11:44…