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Supreme Court Takes Death Row Appeal, Turns Down Campaign Finance Challenge
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a bid to further weaken campaign finance laws, but said it would consider the case of an Alabama death row inmate whose previous appeals were rejected due to a missed filing deadline for paperwork. Corey R. Maples, convicted in 1997 of killing two men after a night of boozing and drug use, argued that he had endured negligent legal representation from the outset, including two court-appointed attorneys who cautioned a jury it might appear they were "stumbling around in the dark." During the appeals process, Maples got burned by two New York ...
Grand Jury Investigating John Edwards Expected to Report Soon
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt's hard to feel too sorry for John Edwards, once a golden boy in Democratic politics and now scorned for the way he betrayed his wife and made her last years harder than they should have been. Elizabeth Edwards succumbed to her cancer last year, and in the months since, Edwards has kept a very low profile, moving back into the family home in Chapel Hill, N.C., that he had left when he and Elizabeth separated. But according to an exhaustively reported story in The New York Times, Edwards' self-inflicted solitude could soon come to an end. Related Stories For John ...
Former Sen. Russ Feingold Launches 'Progressive Movement'
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFormer Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, regarded as liberal but independent during his three terms in the Senate, says he is starting a "progressive" movement to support like-minded candidates and fight the influence of corporate money in campaigns. Feingold, who was defeated in his bid for reelection in November, has rejected calls from some liberal voices to challenge President Obama as a candidate of the political left in the 2012 Democratic primaries. Instead of returning to electoral politics, he said in a new video he's forming Progressives United, a group that will have a political ...
Opinion: Citizens United 1 Year Later -- Unleash the Corruption
By not in system - AOL NewsLast month it was reported that incoming Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., "paid a personal visit" to Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "to thank him for the chamber's unsolicited support of his candidacy." Apparently the senator did not get the memo that all genuflecting before campaign funders should be conducted behind closed doors. Johnson's visit comes courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court decision one year ago today in Citizens United v. FEC, which opened the floodgates by allowing for the first time the vast reservoirs of corporate and union treasury funds to swamp ...
Mike Easley, Former N.C. Governor, Convicted on Felony Campaign Finance Charge
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyFormer North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley was convicted on Tuesday of knowingly filing a false campaign report, becoming the state's first governor to admit to a felony. The plea by Easley, a Democrat who was governor from 2001 to 2009, halts state and federal investigations that lasted nearly two years. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and two-term attorney general admitted that he failed to indicate on a required campaign disclosure that he took a $1,600 helicopter ride with a supporter -- McQueen Campbell, the former chairman of the board of trustees at N.C. State University -- in October ...
Will Stealth Spending Decide the 2012 GOP Presidential Primaries?
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAfter a GOP wave election that put the "tsu" in tsunami, Republicans have reason to feel smug as they look toward 2012. High on the GOP's gloating list is the way that wealthy conservatives and right-wing business groups exploited the new permissive fundraising environment created by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Heavy late spending on behalf of Republicans by independent groups that do not legally have to reveal their donors -- like the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS -- probably made a difference in more than a dozen House races. These conservative groups ...
G.O.P. and Fox News: You Two Get a Room! Oh. You did.
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Opinion: Which Is the Party of the Rich?
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- Here is a surprising fact about this election season: Democrats have spent more campaign money than Republicans -- at least if you don't count outside spending by nonprofit groups. Why have Democratic candidates done so well raising money? One reason is that many affluent Americans -- the people who can write big checks -- still like President Barack Obama and fear a return to GOP rule. It is widely known that Democrats charmed upscale voters in 2008. Obama won Americans making more than $200,000 a year by 6 percentage points and captured eight out of 10 of the wealthiest ...
Democrats' Imaginary Campaign Cash Gap
By not in system - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- Despite loud complaints from Democrats that they're being wildly outspent by Republicans and their shadowy anonymous allies -- a bogeyman the White House has made a centerpiece in their closing campaign strategy -- liberal third-party groups are quickly catching up to pro-GOP spending levels as election day nears. Unions and other independent groups have started pouring money into races across the country, sometimes exploiting rules to keep donors secret despite Democrats' condemnation of groups like the Chamber of Commerce for doing the same thing. Last week, 40 percent of ...
Why Are Bailed Out Firms Abandoning Democrats?
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(Oct. 25) -- The bailout of Wall Street and Detroit's automakers couldn't have passed without the support of Democrats. But bailed-out firms aren't returning the favor. According to The Washington Post, most of the campaign donations from bailed-out companies are going to Republicans, some of whom ardently opposed the Trouble Assets Relief Program to begin with: Companies that received federal bailout money, including some that still owe money to the government, are giving to political candidates with vigor. Among companies with PACs, the 23 that received $1 billion or more in federal money ...
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