(Reuters) - The Americans for Prosperity Foundation, a libertarian nonprofit founded by Charles and David Koch, filed a petition this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to review a 2018 ruling by the 9th U.S.Source: Koch-founded charity asks for Supreme Court help to keep donor list secret...
Forty-seven years ago, California’s voters opened the state’s presidential primaries to all nationally recognized candidates.Source: How California’s voters may have saved Trump from releasing his taxes...
Joseph Hero filed to run for a local office in Lake County, Indiana, earlier this year. He is a Republican and the office is partisan, so he filed in the Republican primary.Source: Republican Candidate for Local Office, Banned from Running in the Republican Primary, Sues Election Board...
Martha McDevitt-Pugh may vote in Oakland, but for the past 19 years she’s been filling out her ballot from her home in the Netherlands, one of a growing number of overseas Americans who are part of the Democratic Party.Source: How Democrats get out the vote — from overseas...
By Staff Writer Aug. 28, 2019 2:55 PM New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the 2020 race for president on Wednesday after failing to qualify for the next Democratic debate.“I know this isn’t the result that we wanted,” Gillibrand said in a video she posted on Twitter.Source: Now there are 20: Kirsten Gillibrand drops out of the Democratic...
Let us now praise an insufficiently famous man, Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak, who in May gave his party’s presidential aspirants a much-needed example of prudence.Source: The electoral college is here to stay...
A group of Alaska voters are asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the state limits on political contributions. By far the largest state in the country in size, Alaska imposes the lowest limit on donations to statewide candidates.Source: Supreme Court needs to defend the First Amendment for Alaskan voters...
Facebook said Wednesday that it was strengthening how it verified which groups and people place political advertising on its site, as the social network braces for the 2020 presidential election in the United States and works to reduce the spread of online disinformation.Source: Facebook Tightens Rules on Verifying Political Advertisers...
