Campaign finance news and commentary The Christian Science Monitor offers this editorial. Taking a different postion, James Kilpatrick offers this op-ed (written before Beaumont, but I only discovered it now). Here is yesterday's Los Angeles Times story on Beaumont that was not on the website until now. Roll Call does not seem to have covered the Beaumont decision.

Will Texas Legislature go into special session for redistricting? Jim Dedman posts a rumor along these lines here.

E-mail down, blogger down Last night both my e-mail and blogger were down. If you tried to send me anything last night or this morning, try again; it did not come through.

More on Corporate First Amendment rights and Beaumont. Readers interested in these questions might read Adam Winkler, The Corporation in Election Law, 32 Loyola LA L.Rev. 1243 (1999), and Robert H. Sitkoff, "Corporate Political Speech, Political Extortion, and the Competition for Corporate Charters," 69 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1103 (2002).

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