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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 ...
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 ...
Year in Review: Legal Stories We Should Have Heard More About in 2010
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn this three-part series, Politics Daily's legal analyst Andrew Cohen takes a look at the year in the law. Part 1 focuses on the 2010's most under-reported legal stories. Part 2 will focus on the year's most over-reported legal stories. And Part 3 will wrap up the year-ender package with a look at major legal events and issues. The Five Most Under-Reported Legal Stories of the Year No. 1: United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's emergence as a conservative firebrand. The year started off with a bang for the 2006 appointee of President George W. Bush when he visibly scoffed at ...
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 ...
The Campaign Money Trap: Reformers Become Flip-Floppers When Victory Is in Sight
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyRailing about money in politics -- too much, too secret, too influential -- is a surefire way for politicians to signal that they are high-minded reformers. But it's also a pretty good way to earn the tag of hypocrite or flip-flopper. What is it about the siren song of campaign finance reform? It's like entrapment. People keep embracing ideas they later abandon when the glimmer of victory is in sight, and all it's going to take to get there is more money. In the last presidential election, candidate Barack Obama said he would "aggressively pursue" an agreement to take public financing with ...
Channeling Glenn Beck, Alito Tries But Fails to Define 'Judicial Activism'
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyU.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. generated a ripple last week when he announced in a speech to the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research that he would likely not attend next January's State of the Union Address. At this year's edition of the venerable speech, you may remember, Justice Alito appeared visibly perturbed when President Barack Obama, standing just a few feet away on Capitol Hill, sharply criticized the Court's 5-4 newly minted ruling in the Citizens United case. That ruling, you also may remember, upset decades of legal precedent limiting the breadth of ...
Corporate Cash, 'Opposition Research' and More: Untold Stories of Campaign 2010
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAs we all have learned from watching candidates in both parties mouth patriotic pieties, America is the greatest country in the history of the universe -- and carbon-based life forms in other galaxies all dream of adopting our Way of Life. You know what is perhaps our crowning national accomplishment? Allowing anyone, even the rankest amateur, to feel like a campaign insider by merely spending 11 hours each day scanning political websites and then devouring the evening's fight card of debates on C-Span. America's bounty goes beyond the easy stuff like making odd-duck candidates like ...
Interest Group Spending on Campaigns Setting Records in 2010
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyThe money flowing into campaigns to buy TV ads and send brochures to your mailbox is staggering. And as David Corn notes elsewhere, we may never know where much of this money comes from or exactly how much is spent. That's because of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision earlier this year, which allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts on election activities, and IRS rules that allow that money to flow through nonprofits that don't have to release their donors' names. Using a spreadsheet downloaded from the Federal Election Commission and reports from the Wesleyan Media Project, ...
Sen. Max Baucus Asks IRS to Investigate Tax-Exempt Groups' Political Spending
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is calling on the IRS to investigate advocacy groups that he says are taking advantage of their tax-exempt status to push a political agenda. Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, suggested Wednesday that power brokers are working behind the scenes to manipulate third-party organizations for personal and political gain. "Political campaigns and powerful individuals should not be able to use tax-exempt organizations as political pawns to serve their own special interests," Baucus said in a statement. "The tax exemption given to non-profit organizations ...
Republicans the Party of No? Au Contraire!
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChasoTheoryPD. ...
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