Month: September 2018
US State Dept. removes comment about Syrian #YPG in its 2017 Terrorism Report on #Turkey. Link to 2016 & 2017 reports and a Redline.
Full Redline of 2016 to 2017
Link to the full 2017 European report.
Link to the full 2016 European Report.
GOP doesn’t have protection for its #DarkMoney in November midterms. Big win for Democracy by Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew.
I’m still digging but here is the ORDER entered today in which the Supreme Court vacated the stay Chief Justice Roberts granted over the weekend. The case is pending in the DC circuit but they did not stay it. So that forced them to seek a stay in SCOTUS. CJ Roberts is the justice who handles the DC circuit so it went to him first.
The DC district court had granted summary judgment On August 18, 2018 declaring an amended federal regulation regarding campaign financing disclosures invalid and staying for 45 days. Here is the district court’s Memorandum Opinion
A very quick read of the end of the very long Memorandum Opinion says to me that the FEC has to immediately vacate the regulation that allows big money donors to hide their identity.
Here is the business end of the opinion.
Here is the docket in the DC Circuit. I don’t see anything that should stop CREW from getting the Dark Money donors information. Personally, I think this is what has the Senate GOP so panicked about Kavanaugh.