Elon Musk is facing a new wrinkle in his plans to create a third-party challenger to the political “duopoly” because President Donald Trump has delayed appointing new members to the Federal ...
Because the government believes the relevant provision of the campaign-finance laws is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has appointed Roman Martinez to argue in defense of the ...
Congress designed the Federal Election Commission and the Election Assistance Commission to be “independent agencies” in various respects. See, e.g., S. Rep. No. 93689, at 16 (1974) ...
Data journalist Derek Willis has an interesting new tool: Today I’m releasing a new Python command-line library that allows users to ask questions of federal campaign finance filings by leveraging ...
Politico: A federal judge has dismissed a Democratic Party lawsuit claiming an executive order issued by President Donald Trump was intruding on the independence of the Federal Election ...
Trevor Potter and Adav Novi in The Fulcrum: The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is vital to America’s political process. As the only federal agency dedicated solely to enforcing ...
May 15 Common Cause event. The post May 15 Event: “The FEC at 50: Broken and in Need of Reform” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Politico: The Federal Election Commision, the agency responsible for enforcing campaign finance laws, is again without enough members to take official action after a Republican commissioner ...
Dan Weiner for the Brennan Center: Starting today, the bipartisan Federal Election Commission won’t be able to do its job. That’s because the independent agency, which oversees money in campaigns ...
