Campaign finance recall news See this Los Angeles Times report. See also this Sacramento Bee report .

California recall forum I will be speaking along with William Bagley, Art Torres (Ca. Dem. party chair), Duff Sundheim (Ca Rep. party chair) and David Iverson at the Commonwealth Club (San Francisco) tomorrow at noon. (Details here.) KQED television in San Francisco is supposed to broadcast a tape of the forum some tome next week.

Justice department grants preclearance of additional voting changes, but consolidation issues in Monterey county remain See this Sacramento Bee report.

"Democrats' hard money blues" The Washington Times offers this report.

Legal Times Preview of BCRA case It is available here.

Blogging from BCRA argument If all goes according to plan, I will be attending oral argument at the Supreme Court on Monday. I hope to blog about the first half of the argument during the lunch break (approximately noon eastern time) and about the second half of argument after it wraps up (approximately 3:30 eastern time).

Supreme Court to release oral argument audio from BCRA case right after argument C-SPAN plans to broadcast it, beginning around 3:45 eastern time Monday. See here (link via How Appealing (welcome back Howard!)).

Roll Call campaign finance articles Monday's edition featured "Legal Defense Funds Not Subject To New Campaign Law, FEC Rules" and "FEC to Examine Rules for Mailing Lists." There is also this profile of California Democratic party operative Bob Mulholland in the new "Players" column. All Roll Call articles, unfortunately, require a paid subscription to access.

"Court prepares for case on campaign finance law" The Hill offers this report.

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