On November 21, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said he will drop his pending appeal in the Ninth Circuit over whether the new California law on tax returns and presidential candidates is constitutional.Source: California Secretary of State Will End Appeal in Ninth Circuit in Tax Returns-Ballot Lawsuit...
California’s decision to move up its 2020 primary to early March will make the nation’s most populous state one of the most important in deciding the Democratic presidential candidate. But the winner may not be known for weeks.Source: It May Take a Month to Name California’s Winner on Super Tuesday...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When the U.S. Census Bureau counts residents of Milwaukee’s poorest neighborhoods next year, a significant portion of their population will be missing: prisoners.Source: Census counting of prisoners becomes partisan battleground...
The House Ethics Committee released updates on their investigations into four lawmakers on Thursday, including a high-profile freshman Democratic lawmaker and a Republican lawmaker who they revealed is under investigation by the Department of Justice. CNN's Clare Foran contributed to this report.Source: House Ethics Committee extends investigations into Tlaib and 3 other lawmakers...
Court order.Source: Campaign Legal Center Unsuccessfully Fights Effort to Allow Clinton Campaign and Allied Super PAC to Defend Itself in Federal Court (Comment from Marc Elias)...
Jurvetson and Women.Vote did not respond to requests for comment. Women.Vote did not appear to purchase any Facebook ads, according to Facebook’s ad archive. It’s unclear whether the group has run other ads in other newspapers.Source: Dark money group promotes Warren in Iowa...
WASHINGTON — In upstate New York, Travis Trudell got an alert on his phone Wednesday morning telling him the impeachment hearings had started. He turned on Disney Plus instead. In Wisconsin, Jerre Corrigan never considered watching. She spent the day giving a math lesson to third graders.Source: ‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News...
Attorney General William Barr trashed the so-called resistance movement and mocked Senate Democrats -- as well as the Oscar-nominated movie "Vice" -- in a marathon speech Friday evening that affirmed his credentials as a staunch defender of presidential power.Source: Barr slams Democrats and courts: Avalanche of subpoenas is designed to 'incapacitate the executive branch'...
Democrats called the decision “monumental.” The state said it will appeal. The current law says that whichever party holds the governor’s office can list its candidates first on the ballot in general elections. That hurts an opposing party, U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Walker said.Source: Federal judge declares Florida ballots unconstitutional, orders change...
By Staff Writer 11:04 AM Gov. Gavin Newsom has called a March 3 special election to pick a successor to former Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, the Santa Clarita lawmaker who stepped down amid accusations that she’d had affairs with congressional and campaign staff members.Source: Newsom calls special election to replace former Rep. Katie Hill...
