Disclosures from the Mueller investigation and the Trump impeachment trial probably have made most Americans aware and perhaps even alarmed over the growth of unregulated Wild West election and campaign finance practices that seriously threaten the integrity of American elections.

Here is just a sample of the upheavals in campaign practices that Americans may now be questioning:

  • Following the Trump impeachment verdict, is opposition research “dirt” solicited by a candidate from a foreign government still actually a “thing of value” and therefore illegal?
  • How should election laws account for online political ads now that Facebook has declined to follow Twitter in not running paid political ads in 2020?
  • How should election laws be enforced against the swarm of foreign “bots” and Russian dark sites that U.S. intelligence agencies have warned are looking to sway the 2020 U.S. election?
  • How does such huge amounts of foreign funding get funneled into U.S. campaigns, i.e. the federal indictments of Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman?
  • What is the connection between political corruption and campaign finance lawbreaking as evidenced by the federal convictions of Paul Manafort for bank fraud, Michael Cohen for mistress cover-up payoffs, and Roger Stone for lying to Congress?
  • What new campaign finance loopholes are being opened by such practices as a foreign national spending $200,000 to attend the Trump inaugural; or the Republican National Committee making bulk purchases of thousands of copies of a partisan diatribe “book” by Don Trump, Jr.; or former Rep. Duncan Hunter’s attempt to claim airfare for a pet rabbit as a campaign expenditure?
  • Will shareholders lose their ability to oppose corporate “dark money” expenditures under new Trump administration proposed rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission?

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