With a little over a month to go before the midterm elections, Super PACs just set a dubious record: with total independent expenditures at $549 million and counting, 2018 has passed 2014 as the midterm election with the most Super PAC spending in history.Source: Super PACs driving the midterms unsurprisingly...
Source: Libertarian Senate candidate files FEC complaint against O'Rourke and CNN for $10M over town hall ...
The Supreme Court will settle a dispute over a video that aired on a New York City public access television channel that could have ramifications for social media and public radio stations. On Friday, the Justices said they would accept Manhattan Community Access Corp. v.Source: Supreme Court takes public access TV case with bigger implications...
As tens of thousands of voters in Florida’s storm-tossed Panhandle try to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, their communities are grappling with yet another problem — an election season thrown into disarray.Source: Hurricane aftermath threatens to unleash Florida election chaos...
The period of increased polarization in the United States among the political branches and citizenry affects the selection, work, perception, and relative power of state and federal judges, including Justices of the United States Supreme Court.Source: Revised Version of My Forthcoming Paper, “Polarization and the Judiciary,” Now Current Through Kavanaugh Nomination...
On September 28th, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that forbids the surreptitious use of bots to, among other things, influence Californians’ votes in an election. The law is a disclosure rule: the bot may speak, but it must clearly identify itself as nonhuman.Source: Counterfeit Campaign Speech...
Ninety-two Democratic challengers outraised GOP House incumbents in the third quarter, while 33 Republicans trail in cash on hand.Source: ‘We’re getting our asses kicked’: Republicans massively out-raised in election homestretch...
House Minority Leader Nancy PelosiNancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiOn The Money: Deficit hits six-year high of 9 billion | Yellen says Trump attacks threaten Fed | Affordable housing set for spotlight in 2020 race Deficit hits six-year high of 9 billion: Treasury GOP has not done a good job ofSource: Pelosi: Dems would start with campaign finance reform if they take...
With three weeks to go before the midterm elections, the American political system is drowning in cash. Is that a bad thing? Right now the answer is no, but that’s precisely because this situation is so unusual.Source: The midterm elections are drowning in money. How worried should that make us?...
On Thursday, Facebook announced it had removed more than 800 political pages and accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and spamming. This week, the people behind the pages Facebook purged for being inauthentic are angry.Source: Facebook's 'spam purge' is silencing genuine debate, political page creators say...
