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10 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Candidates for Federal Office Can Raise Unlimited Funds for Ballot Measures DNyuz – Maggie Haberman (New York Times) | Published: 5/5/2024 The FEC issued an advisory opinion allowing candidates to raise unlimited money for issue-advocacy groups working on ballot measures in elections in which those candidates are on the ballot. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Attorney Stephen Muldrow said it was a simple scheme in which Charbonier allegedly received some $100,000 in bribes and kickbacks after increasing the pay of her assistant, Frances Acevedo, from $800 every two weeks to nearly $3,000, and then received between $1,000 to $1,500 in return for every paycheck. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
[I blogged an early draft of this essay three months ago, but I've revised it extensively since then. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
House Votes to Hold Bannon in Contempt for Refusing to Comply with the Jan. 6 Subpoena MSN – Felicia Sonmez, Marianna Sotomayor, and Jacqueline Alemany (Washington Post) | Published: 10/21/2021 The House voted to hold former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol. [read post]
12 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Another Oath Keeper with Links to Roger Stone Charged in Capitol Riot Politico – Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein | Published: 3/9/2021 A second member of the Oath Keepers militia who provided security to longtime Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone has been charged with storming and breaching the Capitol. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Anita Dunn and SKDK: Power and influence in Biden’s Washington MSN – Tyler Pager, Sean Sullivan, and Michael Scherer (Washington Post) | Published: 3/28/2022 SKDK, a public relations and political strategy firm, is a unique force in Washington, straddling the line between the private sector and the Biden administration to quietly affect change. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Apple Flexes Muscle as Quiet Power Behind App Group Yahoo News – Emily Birnbaum (Bloomberg) | Published: 9/19/2022 The APP Association brands itself as the leading voice for thousands of app developers around the world. [read post]
20 May 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the GOP Hartford Courant – Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish (New York Times) | Published: 5/16/2022 At the extremes of American life, replacement theory – the notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to “replace” and disempower white Americans – has become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of mass shootings in recent years. [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Morton’s and Others Brace as Activists Offer Cash for SCOTUS Sightings Yahoo News – Emily Heil and Tim Carman (Washington Post) | Published: 7/11/2022 The Washington, D.C. location of Morton’s the Steakhouse is the first known restaurant in the city to be dragged into the protests over the U.S. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal FBI Arrests Ex-Congressman on Charges of Fraud and Money Laundering MSN – Praveena Somasundaram (Washington Post) | Published: 8/16/2022 Former U.S. [read post]
22 Apr 2025, 9:05 pm by renholding
Delaware courts reserve their entire fairness standard of review – the state’s “most onerous standard” – for, among others, cases involving conflicted controllers.[1] In recent years, there is a view that the standard’s application (or at least the procedural cleansing required to shift the standard of review to business judgment when entire fairness is invoked) has crept to cover situations it was never intended to cover.[2]  As a result, there is growing… [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Bannon Gets 4 Months Jail Term for Defying Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena Yahoo News – Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein (Politico) | Published: 10/21/2022 A judge sentenced longtime Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon to four months in jail for defying a subpoena from lawmakers investigating the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. [read post]
24 May 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Stephen Calk, then the chief executive officer of the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, “sought to leverage his control over” Manafort’s proposed loans in order to obtain a senior administration position, said court documents. [read post]
21 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – Hundreds of Vacancies at San Diego City and County Boards Hobble Missions, Delay Work MSN – Jeff McDonald and Emily Alvarenga (San Diego Union-Tribune) | Published: 6/16/2024 Nearly seven percent of political appointments across the San Diego County government are vacant, either because the terms expired, they were aban [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 5:48 am by Badrinath Srinivasan
Comparing WTO Panelists and ICSID Arbitrators: The Creation of International Legal Fields Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa Abstract:      Who are people who make the decisions in trade and investment dispute settlement systems? [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal After Helping Prince’s Rise, Trump and Kushner Benefit from Saudi FundsMSN – Michael Kranish (Washington Post) | Published: 2/11/2023 The day after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner created a company he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Court Orders FEC to Rule on Complaints Against NRA’s Alleged Campaign Coordination Scheme MSN – Soo Rin Kim (ABC News) | Published: 10/1/2021 A federal court ordered the FEC to rule on pending complaints that allege the National Rifle Association (NRA) used shell entities to illegally coordinate campaign spending with federal candidates, including with the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Billions at Stake as Online Fundraising Practices Turn Off Voters MSN – Jessica Piper (Politico) | Published: 1/17/2023 Llyod Cotler, the founder of Banter Messaging, advises friends and family to write a check if they want to make political contributions and avoid online giving, lest their emails and phone numbers end up on lists that recirculate through the campaign world for eternity. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Justice Breyer to Retire, Giving Biden First Court Pick Yahoo News – Mark Sherman and Michael Balsamo (Associated Press) | Published: 1/26/2022 Longtime liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Biden  his first high court opening, which he has pledged to fill with the historic naming of the court’s first Black woman. [read post]