…part by labor unions has raised $500,000 to air anti-Howard Dean ads in three early primary states, angering the Dean campaign and drawing sharp criticism from campaign finance reform advocates….
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Clark Update It’s been a tough week for the Clark campaign, and a lot of the controversy centers over the role that Clark’s grass roots supporters (given that it’s on…
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Here’s our offer. It’s a very good offer. And a serious one. Seriously. (Yeah, I’m venting my frustration.) Who, the HELL, is running the House and Senate Campaign committees? My…
What the Supreme Court’s refusal today to agree to decide whether to strike down the federal statute that bars corporations from making contributions directly to candidates and political parties might suggest about the outcome of Hobby Lobby
…that case would conflict in part with the anti-states’-rights ruling they wanted to issue in the affirmative action case. And–for obvious reasons–campaign and election law trumps affirmative action law in…
John Roberts Introduces a New Favorite Tactic This Term: Sleights-of-Hand Analogies
…infringement of the First Amendment’s speech clause because of the content of the speech–what the speech says; i.e., “content-based” infringement–with statutory campaign-donation limits, which unless money really does talk, is…
Freedom! Liberty! And Being For the Little Guy. As Brought to You By the Conservative Movement.
…from progressive taxation to exorbitant fines and fees for traffic violations, parking tickets, misdemeanors of other sorts, property forfeitures of large amounts of money or homes or cars, home foreclosures…
What I Want Bernie Sanders to Know Before Tuesday’s Debate
…powers of the federal government and state (and local) governments. No checks, though; only balances. Unless, of course, a state legislature enacts, say, a campaign-finance law, or a municipality a…
Looks Like It’s All Over But the Shouting.*
…don’t think this horse is even nearly dead. Sanders needs to recognize that apparently Clinton plans throughout the campaign to misrepresent his statements by selecting a clause or phrase and…
Why did Paul Krugman and the Washington Post editorial board—both of whom know better—misrepresent that it was Sanders rather than the New York Daily News editorial board that was wrong about what Dodd-Frank provides, and about whether it would be Treasury or instead the financial institutions themselves that would determine the method of paring down?
…statement by her that Sanders did not know what he was talking about on an issue critical to his campaign. She’s now retracted her own earlier statements—the one during the…
Would you want Hillary Clinton as your home-mortgage broker? (This is a serious question, although it has nothing to do with actual mortgages. I don’t think.)
…be nominating someone who campaigns like a used-car-salesman cliché. — Why did Paul Krugman and the Washington Post editorial board—both of whom know better—misrepresent that it was Sanders rather than…
