Final Version of My California Law Review Book Review of Heather Gerken's Democracy Index Now Available

You can find Election Administration Reform and the New Institutionalism at 98 California Law Review 1075 (2010).

"Report: Dems planted NJ tea party House candidate"

AP offers this report.

"It Appears They've Even Taken Secret Foreign Money to Influence Our Elections"

That's the unsubstantiated charge in a new DNC ad, "Stealing Democracy," against the Republicans and the Chamber.

As I told the NY Times, there's no proof that the Chamber has taken a penny of foreign money. But there's no way for us to know whether the Chamber, or anyone else engaged in election-related activity, is improperly using foreign money, unless we allow the FEC or another government agency the ability to audit the records of the political activities of such agencies. (These audits would not be made public unless there was proof of wrongdoing, and groups facing harassment should be exempt from the requirement).

I'll have more to say on the foreign money issue tomorrow in Slate.

Linda Greenhouse on Justice Breyer and Statutory Interpretation

Here.