No Californian in their right mind should vote for Donald Trump. But plenty of Californians aren’t in their right minds, and these sad souls have rights too. Unfortunately, a well-intentioned—if plainly unconstitutional—bill, SB 27, would deny people this choice.Source: Keep Trump on the California Ballot...
Democratic presidential hopefuls have started to drop out of the battle for their party’s 2020 nomination, with long-shot candidate Eric Swalwell on Monday becoming the first to bow out.Source: What Democrats can do with the money left over from their failed 2020 presidential runs...
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Rucho v. Common Causepresents competing judicial conceptions of American voters. Justice Kagan’s dissent encourages courts to employ an “evidence-based, data-based, statistics-based” approach when considering political gerrymandering claims.Source: Michael Morley: Rucho, Legal Fictions, and the Judicial Models of Voters...
Robert Wood Johnson (left) and Kelly Knight Craft at their shared ambassador confirmation hearing in July 2017. Wood was confirmed as ambassador to the United Kingdom, while Craft became ambassador to Canada, a position she held until President Donald Trump nominated her to be U.N.Source: Warren’s pledge to deny campaign donors ambassador jobs would mark departure from Trump, Obama...
President Trump sowed new confusion on Wednesday over his administration’s decision to abandon its fight to add a citizenship question to next year’s census.Source: Trump tweets new confusion into fight over census citizenship question...
California lawmakers, citing election integrity, are moving to ban the distribution of “deepfake” video or audio clips aimed at damaging political candidates, drawing condemnation from First Amendment supporters.Source: California is moving to ban deepfakes. What are they, anyway?...
President Trump's reelection campaign said Tuesday it raised $105 million during the second fundraising quarter. The campaign said it has a whopping $100 million in cash on hand.Source: Trump campaign says it took in $105 million during 2nd quarter...
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, according to its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday.Source: Facebook will ban ads that tell people in U.S. not to vote...
The first man to the microphone wore a Trump 2020 cap and a scowl. “I want to vote for Donald P. Trump for president!” he roared, misstating the president’s middle initial, and stepped aside.Source: Progress Stalls for Minor Parties to Get on State Ballots...
Last week a divided Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s stated reason for including a question about citizenship on the 2020 census – to help the Department of Justice better enforce federal voting rights laws – was a pretext.Source: 2020 census questionnaires go to printer without citizenship question...
