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$27 million routed improperly to the RNC in 2016, FEC general counsel found Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 20:28

A fundraising committee operated jointly by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee in 2016 served as a vehicle for state parties to pass more than $27 million to the national party in possible violation of contribution limits, the...

FEC does ‘a small, good thing’ Politico - 01/14/2022 17:17 The FEC approved a motion from Chair Allen Dickerson to amend the agency’s Form 1 for statements of organization to allow a committee to file as a super PAC or a hybrid PAC within the form.

FEC unanimously dismisses complaint alleging Ilhan Omar used campaign funds to 'facilitate an alleged affair' with campaign official fecgov : Business Insider - 01/16/2022 09:04 The Federal Election Commission has unanimously rejected a complaint accusing Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota of improperly using campaign funds to facilitate an alleged affair, according to documents just made public.

FEC rejects campaign finance complaint against Rep. Omar Associated Press News (AP) - 01/15/2022 11:42 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Federal Election Commission has tossed out a 2019 complaint against Rep.

Ilhan Omar from a conservative group alleging the Minnesota Democrat illegally spent campaign funds on her now-husband’s political consulting firm. The...

FEC: Omar campaign's ties to husband's firm broke no laws My Fox Twin Cities - 01/17/2022 13:38 MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - The U.S. Federal Election Commission has ended its investigation into the relationship between U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign and her husband's consulting firm. On a unanimous 6-0 vote, the commission found no wrongdoing after...

SCOTUS is Set to Consider Ted Cruz’s Challenge Against Campaign Finance Law Texas Lawbook - 01/17/2022 12:56 Before becoming a U.S. senator in 2013, Ted Cruz argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as Texas solicitor general and as a Supreme Court advocate for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. On Jan. 19, Cruz will be on the high court’s docket again, but not...

Ted Cruz takes on campaign finance law USA Today - 01/17/2022 18:59 WASHINGTON – Sen. Ted Cruz didn't need the money. He wanted to make a point. Justices take on Christian flag case It centers on whether third-party banner at city hall sends message from the people or government. 3A A day before his successful...

Ted Cruz at heart of case that could legalize quid pro quo election contributions Courthouse News Service (United States) - 01/16/2022 09:13 The Republican senator from Texas is using the First Amendment to challenge campaign finance laws, but the government says the Supreme Court's endorsement of such changes could condone bribery in elections. WASHINGTON (CN) — As the U.S. heads into an...

Supreme Court to Weigh In on Ted Cruz Campaign Loan Well News - 01/14/2022 18:05 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether a Federal Election Commission limit on the amount of post-election contributions campaigns can use to repay debts they owe to the candidates themselves violates the free speech clause...

Senators Introduce the ZOMBIE Act To Slay Washington's Campaign Finance Monsters fecgov : LX.com - 01/18/2022 07:32 Cracking the whip of accountability in Washington has never been easy, especially when a lawmaker is calling for more oversight for members from their own party. But one senator has dreams of being the hero that D.C. needs and is stepping up to slay...

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House Democratic campaign arm outraises GOP counterpart in final quarter of The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 16:11 House Democrats’ campaign arm outraised its Republican counterpart in 2021, with fundraising records for each party setting the stage for an expensive battle for the lower chamber. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) said Friday...

These 8 companies and trade groups are said to be among the top donors to 'Sedition Caucus' Republicans who voted against certifying the 2020 election result fecgov : Business Insider - 01/18/2022 07:35 Top US companies and trade groups have donated more than $8.1 million to Republican lawmakers who voted against Joe Biden's certification as president, according to a report by watchdog Accountable.US .

Mueller witness pleads guilty in illegal scheme to funnel UAE money to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign Washington Examiner (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 19:54 George Nader, a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and a convicted child sex predator, quietly pleaded guilty last year to involvement in an illegal campaign finance scheme funneling millions of dollars from...

UAE Adviser Illegally Funneled Foreign Cash Into Hillary Clinton's 2016 Campaign The Intercept - 01/16/2022 10:08 George Nader, an American adviser to the government of the United Arab Emirates, convicted sex offender, and frequent visitor to the White House during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, has pleaded guilty for his role in helping the UAE...

Rise of right-wing apps seen worsening midterm disinformation fecgov : Roll Call - 01/18/2022 07:41 A growing constellation of right-wing social media apps and sites are seeing their user bases grow, creating an echo chamber that experts fear will promote disinformation and outright lies about the midterm elections.

The Senate is set to debate voting rights. Here's what the bills would do NPR [National Public Radio] (United States) - 01/18/2022 05:03 Canceling a planned recess for this week, the Senate is set to debate two measures on Tuesday that Democrats say would make it easier for all Americans to vote and reverse efforts by several states to limit ballot access. Versions of both measures,...

Senate Democrats call special caucus meeting ahead of filibuster fight The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 22:50 Senate Democrats are convening a special, in-person caucus meeting on Tuesday as they brace for a fight on voting rights and the filibuster to come to a head. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D- N.Y.) has called the meeting for 5 p.m. on Tuesday,...

Schumer vows to push forward with filibuster change: 'The fight is not over' The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 18:23 Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday vowed to move forward with a likely doomed effort to change Senate filibuster rules as part of an effort to pass voting rights legislation.

Schumer — speaking at a National Action Network event...

Biden all but concedes defeat on voting, election bills Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 01:32

WASHINGTON — All but conceding defeat, President Joe Biden said Thursday he’s now unsure the Democrats’ major elections and voting rights legislation can pass Congress this year. He spoke at the Capitol after a key fellow Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema...

Democrats ponder Plan B strategy to circumvent voting-rights filibuster fecgov : The Hill - 01/18/2022 07:38 Senate Democrats are scrambling for a Plan B to pass voting rights legislation after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced last week that they would not vote to change the Senate’s filibuster rule despite the pleading of...

Trump said Republicans will never be elected again if Democrats pass their voting rights bill

Business Insider (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 00:17 The "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" seeks to expand voting access and introduce reforms related to redistricting and campaign finance.

GOP pulls debate threat from Trump playbook Politico - 01/18/2022 04:37

Donald Trump's performance in his first debate against Joe Biden in 2020 was widely viewed as a disaster, and he was perceived by viewers as the loser of both that and the second debate. | Jim Bourg- Pool/Getty Images By DAVID SIDERS 01/18/2022 04:30...

Sanders turns up heat on Manchin, Sinema with tweet on voting rights bills https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256744364000000201?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256765344000000001?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256762540000000322?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256754432000000075?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256765368000000001?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256764732000000604?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256763244000000015?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256762172000000187?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256740852000000330?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256765356000000253?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256752068000000312?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256764628000000219?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov

Sanders turns up heat on Manchin, Sinema with tweet on voting rights bills FOX : News - 01/18/2022 00:24 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took to Twitter Monday to call out two colleagues by name in the Democrat effort to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass the party’s voting rights bills. Senate Republicans are unified in their opposition to the...

Lawmakers coming under increased threats — sometimes from one another The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 16:12 A little over a year after the violent attack on the Capitol, threats targeting lawmakers have only increased alongside a surge of violent speech shared online and even inside the building. Threats against lawmakers have reached an all-time high of...

Bitcoin crashes the midterms Politico - 01/16/2022 07:05 Brock Pierce, a former child actor turned crypto entrepreneur, is exploring a run for the Vermont Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Patrick Leahy. | (Photo: Business Wire) By BEN SCHRECKINGER 01/16/2022 07:00 AM EST Link Copied In the closing days...

South Korean Lawmaker Joins Growing List of Politicians to Take Crypto Donations European Equities - 01/17/2022 03:18 (FX Empire) By Bob Mason Politics and Bitcoin ( BTC ) have had a blossoming relationship in recent years. While regulators and the IMF call for a global regulatory framework for cryptos, a number of politicians in the U.S have embraced cryptos. U.S...

Florida looms large in Republican 2024 primary The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 06:02 Florida is emerging as the epicenter of the early fight for the GOP presidential nomination as speculation grows about the possibility of as many as four Republicans from the Sunshine State pursuing the party's nod in 2024. Among the Floridians seen...

Left laughs off floated changes to 2024 ticket The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/16/2022 18:55 Progressives are openly frustrated at the Biden administration flounders on issues across the board, but they are dismissing outright suggestions that previous party leaders — or worse: Republicans — could be the solution. The New York Times, The Wall...

James Carville: Dems ‘whine too much,’ need to highlight accomplishments ahead of midterms Politico - 01/16/2022 17:10 “Just quit being a whiny party and get out there and fight and tell people what you did, and tell people the exact truth,” James Carville said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.“ | Jason Kempin/Getty Images By MAEVE SHEEHEY 01/16/2022 05:08 PM EST Link Copied...

Rep. Clyburn concedes voting rights legislation ‘on life support,’ but not dead yet Daily News (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 16:43 Democrats will keep fighting for sweeping voting and ethics legislation even though it’s “on life support,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Sunday. The veteran lawmaker took a long view ahead of Martin Luther King Day. “They may be on...

Ted Cruz campaign finance case to go before U.S. Supreme Court Washington Times-Herald (Washington, IN) - 01/16/2022 14:33 AUSTIN — A lawsuit filed against the Federal Election Commission by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign will reach the U.S. Supreme Court next week as his campaign attempts to overturn campaign finance laws in his favor. Cruz, who was first elected senator...

Trump Stumps for Arizona GOP Loyalists, Flanked by Election Result Deniers Phoenix New Times (Phoenix, AZ) - 01/16/2022 14:16 Voters ousted him from the Oval Office 14 months ago, but Donald Trump’s iron grip on Arizona’s GOP has not loosened, a bustling rally in Florence on Saturday night showed again. Trump loves Arizona, he reminded supporters again Saturday. And a...

Ohio Congressional Map Favoring GOP Too Partisan, Court Says fecgov : Bloomberg Government - 01/16/2022 09:08 Ohio’s new congressional district map violated the state constitution and must be redrawn by the state legislature, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The Memo: 2024 chatter reveals Democratic nervousness The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/16/2022 08:04

Speculation has begun about the 2024 Democratic presidential ticket, almost three years before the election. Some of the suggestions are blasted as risible. But the early chatter itself reveals the nervousness that permeates the party. In the past...

Some in GOP begin testing party's lockstep loyalty to Trump The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/16/2022 07:15 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256763620000000089?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256761652000000023?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256753700000000142?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256758556000000193?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256759212000000513?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256756540000000103?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256756124000000177?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256756012000000092?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256755496000000064?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256755428000000168?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256754196000000266?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256753940000000188?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256753740000000162?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stepped up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party, holding a rally in Arizona on Saturday in which he castigated anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential...

Trump, in Arizona, says Biden more destructive 'than 5 presidents put together' FOX : News - 01/16/2022 05:06 Former President Trump continued his "Save America" tour Saturday with an event in Arizona, where he scrutinized President Biden and endorsed local Republican candidates. The former president did not reveal if he would be reseeking the presidency in...

Trump vows a ‘comeback,’ trashes Biden at massive first rally of 2022 campaign season Washington Times (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 23:29 Former President Donald Trump on Saturday promised that he would be staging a “comeback,” his clearest indication yet that he plans to run for the White House in 2024. He said it would be a “comeback the likes of which nobody has ever seen.” He made...

Kelly takes under-the-radar approach in Arizona Senate race The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 06:02 Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is relying on a tried-and-true strategy of raising boatloads of money while keeping his head down on hot-button issues in a bid to win his Senate race, a contest that is a lynchpin for both parties’ strategies to win control...

Harris takes fresh start to 2022 The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 17:04 Vice President Kamala Harris is undergoing a fresh start in 2022. Since the new year began, Harris has been front-and-center, alongside President Biden in delivering speeches on the January 6th anniversary of the Capitol insurrection and on voting...

Gov. Inslee could be in ‘early stages of another presidential run,’ political watchdog theorizes MyNorthwest.com (Seattle, WA) - 01/17/2022 17:51 Washington Governor Jay Inslee is giving political watchdogs reason to believe he is considering a bid for the 2024 U.S. presidential election. In November, the governor traveled to Chicago where he had a number of appointments and fundraising efforts...

Trump Rally Underscores G.O.P. Tension Over How to Win in 2022 New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/15/2022 15:24 Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona on Saturday featured a host of election deniers. His involvement in state races and his inability to let go of his 2020 loss worries many Republicans . FLORENCE, Ariz. — Former President Donald J. Trump returned on...

Sinema reignites 2024 primary chatter amid filibuster fight The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 12:39 Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is pouring fuel onto talk of a 2024 Democratic primary challenge by digging into her opposition to changing the filibuster. Sinema in a Friday speech on the Senate floor roughly an hour before President Biden met with...

GOP's midterm dilemma: How closely to align with Trump Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 10:18

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is stepping up his election-year effort to dominate the Republican Party with a Saturday rally in Arizona in which he plans to castigate anyone who dares to question his lie that the 2020 presidential...

Frustrated Democrats Call for ‘Reset’ Ahead of Midterm Elections New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/14/2022 19:38 Democrats already were expecting a rough election year. But their struggle to advance priorities has some calling for a course correction. WASHINGTON — With the White House legislative agenda in shambles less than a year before the midterm elections,...

Trump 2024 is here, if he wants it Politico - 01/14/2022 19:09 With help from Maggie Miller HE'S RUNNING? — Presidential campaigns do not start in any definitive way. The 2024 race had “already begun” last June, or was it March, or even before the last election, back in the fall of 2020. Turn up at a Lincoln Day...

A majority of Trump's 2022 endorsements have questioned the 2020 election resultsNBC - 01/14/2022 09:39 WASHINGTON — If it’s Friday ... President Biden talks infrastructure as his voting rights push appears all but dead. ... Biden also plans executive action on police reform. ... Super PAC attacks Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. ... And TODAY celebrates 70...

John Katko, Republican Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Won’t Seek Re-election New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/14/2022 16:50 Increasingly marginalized from conservatives at home and in Washington , Mr. Katko also faced a brutal https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256753228000000227?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256751876000000030?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256759212000000541?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256750340000000267?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256762048000000043?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256749936000000037?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256749276000000149?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256748712000000054?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256745196000000194?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256745076000000182?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256742796000000162?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256744520000000150?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov

Increasingly marginalized from conservatives at home and in Washington , Mr. Katko also faced a brutal general election campaign in his left-leaning New York district. WASHINGTON — Representative John Katko of New York , a centrist Republican who...

Biden’s team takes a page from Trump: Pushing back on poor poll numbers Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 15:17

Donald Trump’s self-worth has long been defined by numbers. His net worth (which he would often inflate). The ratings for “The Apprentice.” And once he entered politics, polling. He would watching polling closely, loudly celebrating his leads in the...

Trump to rally supporters in Texas The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 15:17 Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Texas later this month as he looks to ramp up his travel schedule ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The rally is scheduled for Jan. 29 in Conroe, Texas, north of Houston, at the Montgomery County...

Sinema speech turbocharges primary challenge buzz Politico - 01/14/2022 11:04 Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves the U.S. Capitol. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images By STEPHANIE MURRAY 01/14/2022 11:01 AM EST Link Copied Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) had hardly finished throwing cold water on President Joe Biden’s voting rights push on...

GOP trying to recruit Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to run for Senate, despite FBI investigation Salon (San Francisco, CA) - 01/18/2022 05:48 Republican Senate leaders are trying to recruit outgoing Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to run for Senate despite an ongoing FBI corruption investigation into his administration's efforts to issue tax refunds worth up to $100 million to aid one of Ducey's...

Republicans didn’t bother to recruit a candidate to run against Sen. Tammy Duckworth Chicago Sun-Times (Chicago, IL) - 01/16/2022 21:04 WASHINGTON — When Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin announces his bid for governor, expected on Monday, a newly formed statewide Illinois GOP slate is complete with one stunning gap. No Republican with any political heft has been recruited to run against...

Jan. 6 panel grapples with whether to subpoena some of their own Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/18/2022 06:37

Good morning, Early Birds. Come for Jackie's reporting on the Jan. 6 committee, stay for the giant cupcake. Send your tips about giant porcelain foodstuff and other matters of unusual size to earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. :...

Outlandish Trump-backed Arizona candidate raises record-breaking $2.5 million for re-election Raw Story (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 15:59 The most impressive fundraising number in the 2022 election cycle belongs not to a gubernatorial candidate or U.S. Senate hopeful, but to a first-term state senator seeking re-election. Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Flagstaff Republican who has made herself...

Michigan AG asks feds to investigate alternate GOP electors Washington Times (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 19:15 LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general is asking federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into 16 Republicans who submitted false certificates stating they were the state’s presidential electors despite Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote...

New Leader Appointed to Intelligence Unit That Oversees Foreign Election Threats New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/15/2022 00:00 The director of national intelligence appointed a C.I.A. veteran to the post amid delays in congressional approval of money for a new office to oversee threats to American politics from abroad. WASHINGTON -- The director of national intelligence,...

The Justice Dept. alleged Jan. 6 was a seditious conspiracy. Now will it investigate Trump?

Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 16:12 The Justice Department’s decision to charge Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy last week makes clear that prosecutors consider the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol part of an organized assault to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power

Senate Democrats' super PAC releases $1 million ad buy against Ron Johnson The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 07:32 The Senate Majority PAC on Friday rolled out a $1 million ad buy against incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), becoming the latest Democratic group to hit Johnson on air following the announcement of his reelection bid. The top Senate Democratic super...

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The right’s conspiratorial defenses of Jan. 6 figures come under microscope with seditious-conspiracy charges

Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 12:58 When Fox News’s Tucker Carlson launched headlong last summer into what would become a lengthy and repeatedly debunked campaign to suggest the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was actually an inside job by the federal government, one man figured...

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State and Local (and International) Campaign Finance News

With Voting Bills Dead, Democrats Face Costly Fight to Overcome G.O.P. Curbs New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 08:29 Party officials now say they are resigned to spending and organizing their way around the new voting restrictions passed in Republican-controlled states. With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create new protections for access...

Illinois governor cuts $90M check for reelection campaign Politico - 01/15/2022 16:00 CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is making a major move to self-finance his reelection bid ahead of an anticipated announcement next week that a new Republican candidate is about to emerge with expected support of Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin

Will 2022 be the year for ethics reform in South Carolina?

Post & Courier (Charleston, SC) - 01/17/2022 15:04 COLUMBIA — Months after a newspaper investigation exposed how dozens of political officials across South Carolina get away with refusing to pay their ethics fines, state lawmakers appear to be taking action. A Senate committee will soon debate a...

Sen. Petersen: We need Youngkin to join effort to end Dominion campaign donations Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond,VA) - 01/17/2022 12:55 A state senator who’s tried for years to scale down Dominion Energy’s influence in the state Capitol called on Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Monday to join the effort, saying lawmakers need the new governor’s support if they’re going to pass the legislation

Lobbyists told state insurance chief they represented company at center of campaign scandal, new filing says U-T San Diego [San Diego Union-Tribune] (San Diego, CA) - 01/16/2022 08:04 Two former state lawmakers now working as lobbyists spoke personally with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and his senior deputy, contrary to what state officials have said in a public-records lawsuit unfolding now in a Los Angeles...

Billionaire GOP benefactor Liz Uihlein spends $220K on Rebecca Kleefisch in governor's race Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The (Milwaukee, WI) - 01/17/2022 17:03 MADISON – As Delafield's Kevin Nicholson gears up a run for governor, one of his top supporters is also spending money to send former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch to the state Capitol's east wing. Liz Uihlein, co-founder of the Pleasant Prairie-based...

Election overhaul in Alaska aimed at reducing partisanship Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/16/2022 11:42

JUNEAU, Alaska — As partisan warfare has become the norm in state legislatures and Congress, Alaska is set to embark on an experiment to see if voters themselves can disarm the combatants. A new election system, narrowly passed by voters in 2020 and...

New Texas voting law snags US citizens, mail ballot requests Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 19:02

AUSTIN, Texas — A sweeping new Texas voting law that Republicans muscled through the Legislature last year over dramatic protests is drawing fire again, even before some of the most contentious restrictions and changes kick in ahead of the state’s...

Kristi Noem’s on a Political Rocket Ship. But Don’t Rule Out a Crash.

Politico - 01/17/2022 07:05 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — One Saturday last fall, around the opening of South Dakota’s pheasant hunting season, a crowd of businesspeople and political benefactors who’d come to meet and hunt with the state’s governor, Kristi Noem, trickled back to the...

Noem releases ad touting transgender athlete ban in girls' sports The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 16:32 South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) released an ad on Wednesday promoting a transgender athlete ban on girls’ sports as the bill makes it way through the state legislature. “In South Dakota, only girls play girls' sports. Why? Because of Governor Kristi...

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Glenn Youngkin is a Republican star. He’ll need to be bold to remain one.

Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 15:27

Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin became an instant national figure with his stunning gubernatorial victory in November. Keeping that stature will require him to be much bolder than the typical GOP governor. Republican chief executives have largely...

Federal Employee and Government News

Lawmakers propose pay raise for federal employees Federal News Network - 01/14/2022 14:22 Continuing with an annual tradition, lawmakers have once again introduced a bill that would give federal employees a pay raise in 2023. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations,...

Democratic Lawmakers Introduce 5.1% Federal Pay Raise Bill MeriTalk - 01/14/2022 15:43 Democrats in both the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would give Federal employees an average 5.1 percent pay raise in 2023. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., reintroduced the Federal Adjustment of Income Rates (FAIR) Act, in the House,...

Federal government facilitates donations to an organization that praises Confederate traitors

Washington Post (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 06:07 Uncle Sam is in the curious position of supporting advocates for those who waged war against him. The federal government facilitates fundraising for an organization that celebrates Confederate troops who attacked the U.S. government and killed its...

Editorials, Blogs and OpEds

“Campaign Finance Returns to Supreme Court in Ted Cruz Case” Election Law Blog - 01/14/2022 16:27 New Brennan Center analysis of the pending Ted Cruz case. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this Wednesday in a case that marks the latest attempt to dismantle federal campaign finance rules. The case, Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz...

Weighing Legal Corruption?

Medium (Blog) - 01/18/2022 06:36 Terry H. Schwadron Jan. 18, 2022 A Supreme Court case this week suggests more change for politics and campaign money that could legalize untraceable money that can go to a candidate once elected. In other words, it could legalize corrupt profit to...

Too much money in politics, and not enough in democracy The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 14:04 The anniversary of Jan. 6 was a grim reminder of our democracy in crisis. Instead of hoping that the upcoming midterm elections will be a period of convergence on kitchen-table constituent priorities, we have ample reason to fear greater division

Democrats would rip up election law under the guise of a COVID emergency fecgov : The Hill - 01/18/2022 07:38 Democrats’ push to make permanent the voting rules put in place during the pandemic is a near last-ditch effort to keep their 2024 hopes alive. Should the Democrats not be able to preserve COVID-related, “emergency” voting measures by passing the...

There's no such thing as 'absolute immunity' for former presidents The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/17/2022 10:37 Last Monday, Donald J. Trump’s lawyers asked a federal court to dismiss three civil lawsuits against the former president brought by California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, a group of other House Democrats and Capitol police officers. Each suit seeks...

Voting rights and wrongsJoe Biden’s voting-rights push is futile–and misguided The Economist - 01/16/2022 17:10 WHAT BETTER way to chase one humiliating setback and waste of political capital than with another?

That seems to be the outcome of President Joe Biden’s latest political strategy as he smarts from the failure of his signature climate-change and...

Charles M. Blow: Failure on Voting Rights Would Be Historic New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 15:00 https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256744192000000046?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256743928000000030?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256744252000000350?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256741948000000691?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256744428000000244?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256765104000000320?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256761140000000136?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256765352000000001?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256760308000000075?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256756124000000028?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov https://myconvergence.bna.com:443/ContentItem/External/256755600000000033?dashboardId=9a4ac136-8616-4e37-8914-26123e3af3fa&alertGuid=49a92b87-7e56-46e1-b83b-6a02e16b87e7&emailaddress=press@fec.gov

New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 15:00 After Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema made it clear that they were not in favor of altering the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation, essentially dooming the bills to failure and ensuring that Republicans could continue...

“Time to start over on voting rights and election security” Election Law Blog - 01/16/2022 14:42 Doyle McManus in L.A. Times. Also, I missed El Kilgore’s Intelligencer column from a few days ago, A Plan to Fix the Electoral Count Act Is Taking Shape, which quoted this ELB post. The Washington Post today is continuing to editorialize in favor of...

Corporate donors vs. the rest of us: Whose side is this senator on?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) - 01/16/2022 05:04 I work hard to make ends meet for my family. But as an educator in West Virginia, that’s hard sometimes

— especially with child care expenses. Fortunately, the expanded child tax credit that Democrats passed last spring has been a lifeline. Those...

How Did Democrats Let This Happen?

New York Times, The (New York, NY) - 01/16/2022 05:00 It has been less than a week since President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris came to Atlanta and gave speeches supporting federal legislation to protect and ensure voting rights. Now the legislation is as good as dead . It happened that...

Corporate sedition is more damaging to America than the Capitol attack Yahoo! News UK and Ireland - 01/16/2022 01:18 Kyrsten Sinema receives millions from business and opposes progressive priorities. Republicans who voted to overturn an election still bag big bucks. Whose side are CEOs on? Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s...

“Census Memo Cites ‘Unprecedented’ Meddling by Trump Administration” Election Law Blog - 01/15/2022 22:48 New evidence on the Trump administration’s meddling with the Census, confirming its focus on excluding noncitizens from the population count for reapportionment purposes. The memo laid out a string of instances of political interference that senior...

“Disputed Presidential Elections and the Collapse of Constitutional Norms” Election Law Blog - 01/15/2022 22:25 Matthew Seligman on Electoral Count Act reform: This Article exposes the vulnerabilities of the legal framework governing Congress’s role in resolving disputed presidential elections: the Electoral Count Act of 1887. The constitutional and statutory...

“The Voting Rights Conundrum” Election Law Blog - 01/15/2022 22:18 Stephen Griffin on how voting rights commentary often ignores history, especially in the South.

Unfortunately, this viewpoint leaves out one region and one group of surpassing importance to the Democratic party and, one hopes, to the nation as a whole...

Biden's new calls to action matter, as does the one yet to come The Hill (Washington, DC) - 01/15/2022 11:06 Just as two points make a line, two speeches can draw a battle line — so it was with President Biden ’s two speeches on Jan. 6 and Jan. 11. There is, however, an important front he has yet to address — the fight to control local elected offices. On...

Democrats are still suffering from Trump derangement syndrome Washington Times (Washington, DC) - 01/14/2022 17:58 OPINION: It wasn’t so long ago that the entire Democrat establishment and biased mainstream media took the position that former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. That was false. Legions of leftists conspired to...

“Estimating partisan advantage” (Ramsay guest post) Election Law Blog - 01/14/2022 16:32This is a guest post by Alec Ramsay of Dave’s Redistricting about a new class of metrics that measure whether redistricting plans favor one political party or the other. People tend to use the terms “bias” and “fairness” interchangeably and sometimes...

Michelle cottle: Ron Johnson Wasn’t Always Like This. The Trump Years Broke Him.

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