Democracy Wire

In releasing the names of Jeb Bush’s financial bundlers yesterday, the former Florida governor’s presidential campaign said Bush is “committed to transparency.”

With 2016 presidential candidates filing new third quarter campaign finance reports with the Federal Elections Commission, Common Cause completed an analysis of the percentage of small donors (those who give $200 or less) among the donors of the candidates.

Of course I was thrilled this past April when the Federal Communications Commission indicated it was leaning against approval of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger.

Presidential candidate Jeb Bush said yesterday that there’s been “dramatic improvement” in access to voting since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 and that there’s no need to support reauthorizing the law “as is.”

Voting is one of the most important rights and duties of citizens in a democracy.

Veteran election lawyer Bob Bauer had some simple but powerful advice Wednesday for about 50 young attorneys who gathered for a meeting of the D.C. Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society.