"Issa Recall Contributions in Question" The North County Times offers this report.

More Speculation that the Campaign Finance Case will Keep Justices from Retiring See this Washington Times report, which implicitly disagrees with Howard Bashman's comment that "anyone who thinks that a Justice will change his or her retirement plans because of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance case is sadly mistaken."

The New York Judicial Conduct Cases  UPDATE: The New York Times offers this report.

FEC Enforcement Hearing The Federal Election Commission is holding a hearing today on complaints about its enforcement procedures. See "FEC Enforcement Process Called ‘Burdensome’" in Roll Call (registration required).

With the inaugural Supreme Court battle of the 21st century unofficially under way, abortion-rights activists have stockpiled a multimillion-dollar war chest, positioning themselves to be on air within days — or hours — of a nomination to the highest court in the land.

Expecting a vacancy on the Supreme Court, nine abortion-rights groups have formed a 501(c)(3) off-shoot devoted specifically to judicial issues and initially seeded the new group with a $5.5 million down payment, according to lead participants, including NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

At the same time, groups on the right, most prominently the Committee for Justice, are aggressively raising money for a counter-campaign that has the tacit blessing of President Bush. On June 27 first nephew George P. Bush will headline a small-dollar fundraiser in Washington for the Committee for Justice, designed with an eye toward generating support for the expected Supreme Court nomination battle among young conservative activists.

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