Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, flanked by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, talks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. | AP PhotoSource: Reid wants campaign finance reform to be part of SCOTUS debate...
The brief was filed in a NY case.Source: Harvard Law Prof Elhauge Files Amicus Brief Saying Ted Cruz Not Natural Born Citizen...
As Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have caught fire, the political establishment has made a show of scratching its collective head to figure out why. But they already know.Source: Will the Parties Ever Learn?...
On so-called 'SUPER TUESDAY', 595 Republican National Convention delegates are bound to contenders for that Party's 2016 Presidential Nomination- while 799 Democratic National Convention delegates are also being pledged to presidential candidates in that Party- in most of the delegate selection eveSource: The Green Papers: What's New?...
With the caveat that the job of a lower court judge is to implement the Supreme Court’s rulings and the job of a Supreme Court Justice is to make those rulings not bound by a higher court, my view is that a Justice Garland would be moderately liberal on election law issues, probably voting with the four more liberal Justices...
In the industrial Midwest, after multiple ballots, the Republican convention finally chooses its nominee.Source: Bribery and the Brokered Convention?...
Sen. Bob Hertzberg chose, appropriately, the first weekday of Sunshine Week to announce his bill that would shed much more light on California’s political campaign money.Source: Update public’s knowledge of money in California politics...
If the Republican National Committee is worried about the possibility of a contentious contested convention, one of its top officials showed no signs of concern Wednesday, even after the party's front-runner warned of possible riots in Cleveland if he is denied the party's nomination.Source: RNC spokesman: Trump 'speaking figuratively' about convention riots...
Haugland was then asked what the point of holding primaries is if the party can disregard the will of the voters.Source: GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters...
