Commentaries by Professor Mark Brown | Capital University Law School

Convention means nothing to Donald Trump. Neither does the Constitution. Since re-assuming office, he has summarily dismissed the Chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Inspectors General across federal agencies, too, something that the Biden administration itself unfortunately practiced. Without hearings, without credible reasons and [...]

Does the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) preempt New York’s use of federal campaign finance violations to enhance Donald Trump’s criminal penalties for falsifying his New York business records? Professor Elizabeth Price Foley (Florida International University) and conservative media commentator David Rivkin argued in the Wall Street Journal last week that it does, since FECA [...]