FEC

Today the FEC will consider an alternative draft of AO 2006-30 (ActBlue).  CCP considers this most recent draft to be a substantial improvement over the ...

Thanks to advocates of campaign finance “reform”, the enterprise of political speech in America has become complicated business.  But while the regulatory regime advanced ...

The wonderful thing about the New York Times editorial board is the way they can be so indignant, while having their facts (we won't ...

Air America, the liberal talk radio network, recently declared its bankruptcy.  Unremarked upon, however, is the prospect that Air America was merely "circumvention" of ...

The FEC is currently considering alternative drafts of a new Advisory Opinion that asks whether a campaign committee receives a ...

The term “Orwellian”, which has come to embrace a number of different definitions, sometimes crops up in the campaign finance ...

Yesterday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on doings at the Wisconsin State Elections Board:

"A lawyer for ...

The Supreme Court has said that political party committees have a First Amendment right to speak independently of and in coordination with the candidates they ...

The "electioneering communications" provisions of the McCain-Feingold law kick into place today.  This means no union or corporate money may be used to finance ...

On Monday the FEC rejected a proposal to pass an interim rule allowing for grassroots issue ads to air during campaign season.  The proposal ...