California has a reputation for progressive reforms in areas ranging from safeguarding its pristine coastline to protecting vulnerable undocumented immigrants. But some of the state’s reforms have yielded harmful consequences.Source: Opinion: Top-two primary election method is failing Californians...
With the GDPR just over one month old, the California legislature has now passed its own version of the European privacy law, ushering in the toughest rules on internet privacy in the country.Source: California Passes Toughest Online Privacy Law in the U.S....
Top legal thinkers weigh the record of Brett Kavanaugh, the likely replacement for Justice Anthony Kennedy. In the end, President Donald Trump made the expected choice: Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative jurist who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.Source: Trump Picked Kavanaugh. How Will He Change the Supreme Court?...
Mr. Berman is a journalist who specializes in voting rights.Source: Does Brett Kavanaugh Spell the End of Voting Rights?...
The Supreme Court has for decades avoided definitively resolving the question of how much political gerrymandering is too much for the Constitution to tolerate. And so, when many legal commentators read the Court’s recent opinion in Gill v.Source: Justice Kavanaugh can help fix gerrymandering...
Charles Davis, Kavanaugh and campaign finance: , SCOTUSblog (Jul. 13, 2018, 2:28 PM), https://ift.tt/2KWk2M7Source: Republican National Committee v. Federal Election Commission...
House Democrats are trying to ramp up pressure to send more election security funding to states by spotlighting the ones they say are most vulnerable going into November.Source: The Cybersecurity 202: House Democrats list states with weakest election security in new report...
On July 13, the California Secretary of State released the official tally for the June 5, 2018 primary. In three U.S. House races and nine Assembly races, a write-in candidate placed second and will appear on the November ballot.Source: Twelve Write-in Candidates in California Primary Place Second and Will Run in November...
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian officials Friday revealed a host of new information on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.Source: 5 things we learned from Mueller’s new Russia indictment...