Ashby Law

Lawyers for political leaders, influential companies and important causes. Campaign finance, election law, lobbyist regulation, government ethics.

Apr 7, 2017

Death of the Party

Tom Perez, the newly-minted Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, just ordered all DNC staffers to resign by April 15. The dramatic move is a signal that Chairman Perez is serious about rebuilding the DNC. But staffing changes should be the least of his concerns. The biggest problem the…

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Dec 31, 2015

The Five Most Important Political Law Developments of 2015

With 365 days in the year and a seemingly infinite amount of space on the Internet to be filled with content, it’s easy to lose perspective. No one ever picked up many Twitter followers downplaying the importance of a news story…

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Nov 6, 2014

Joy Comes In The Morning

In the early morning hours of November 8, 2000, Al Gore telephoned George W. Bush to retract his concession in the presidential election and famously told him, “You don’t have to get snippy about this.” Neither candidate spoke publicly that night, but in close elections since…

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Sep 5, 2014

“It’s Not Show Friends. It’s Show Business.”

If it is true, as they tell you in law school, that bad facts make for bad law, then yesterday’s verdict in U.S. v. Robert F. McDonnell has to be one of the worst jury verdicts in the history of ever.

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Jan 22, 2014

First Take: U.S. v. McDonnell

The indictment of Bob McDonnell is a gut punch to all who knew him, worked for him, admired and believed in him and his leadership style. Earlier today, on Twitter, I posted these ten quick thoughts on the law and politics of the case against him: