DeLay prosecutor asks Texas high court to reinstate conspiracy charge
Travis County Prosecutor Ronnie Earle has filed an appeal in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals , the highest criminal court in the state, requesting that conspiracy charges against US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)...
FEC approves campaign finance regulations for online advertisements
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) decided in a 6-0 vote Monday to approve rules that include subject Internet advertising to current campaign finance laws. The rules will regulate only paid advertisements on another person's...
Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court of the United States, January 23, 2006 [ruling remanding case to the US DC District Court to reexamine whether the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 violates the First...
Supreme Court rules in campaign finance, sovereign immunity cases
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Monday, including a decision in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission , where the Court remanded the case to the federal District...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Henning of Wayne State University Law School says that while lawmakers in Washington are floating new ethics regulations in the wake of the Abramoff lobbying scandal, they might do better to apply existing laws and work...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission , where the court will decide whether the federal Bipartisan Campaign...
The Connecticut General Assembly passed a tough new campaign finance law Thursday that strictly limits campaign contributions for all state offices and creates a public campaign finance system. Once enacted, the bill will ban political...
Son of Israeli PM pleads guilty to campaign finance corruption
Omri Sharon , the son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and member of the Israeli Knesset, pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal fundraising activities related to his father's reelection campaign . In exchange for his...
Court refuses to reconsider decision requiring FEC to toughen campaign finance rules
The full US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has declined to reconsider a decision requiring the Federal Election Commission to write new rules implementing the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act...
JURIST Guest Columnist Craig Bradley, a former law clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, says that Rehnquist's thirty-three year legal legacy is complex and must be examined from multiple perspectives... No one person can adequately assess Chief Justice...
